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Fatefully in December 1934 the issue between Italy and Ethiopia was joined. Each shrieked to heaven that a collection of mud huts called Ualual, located variously on various maps, had been subjected to aggression by the other. Months afterward a League of Nations commission decided that for the Ualual Incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Man of the Year: Haile Selassie | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

It was a grim joke to Chinese when Mr. Yin's hired Chinese mercenaries, escorted by Japanese troops, last week "captured" Tangku, port of Tientsin. If a renowned Chinese Marshal with a name the world knows had enjoyed the same success it would have been psychologically much greater. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Scholar War Lord | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

Autopsy surgeons can spot a lifelong city-dweller by the accumulation of soot in his lungs. Effect of this on health remains unknown, but there is no doubt that coal smoke is a costly nuisance. Dr. Furnas foresees cities made clean by complete conversion of coal into fuel gas at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tomorrow | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

The C.C.C. workers, for example, have been largely instrumental in making skiing a sport that can be enjoyed by everyone. A few years ago skiing consisted principally in "jumping". To the average person it was a hazardous sport at best, to be indulged in only by experts. However, various C.C.C...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harmon Relates Little Known Factors That Have Contributed to the Popularity of Winter Sports | 12/20/1935 | See Source »

From a distance of 3,000 miles the game in Europe strongly impressed Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King last week with a desire to prevent Canada from being blamed in any case for starting a new World War. The proposal to add oil to the Sanctions brew was not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SANCTIONS: Something Silly | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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