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...Nanking, Canton. Shanghai, passionately indignant Chinese likened Manchuria to Panama. When President Theodore Roosevelt wanted a strip of Colombian territory which spanned the Isthmus of Panama, they recalled, a secessionist movement conveniently arose. Panama broke away from Colombia. Promptly recognized as a new and sovereign state by President Roosevelt, she promptly permitted the U. S. to build the Panama Canal. Should Manchuria secede from China, what is to prevent Independent Manchuria from later merging with Japan? Full of suspicion, Chinese patriots scanned Japan for a Roosevelt. Is he Baron Kijuro Shidehara, famed Japanese Foreign Minister...
Chinese Unite? As they always do when menaced by Japan, China's weak and wrangling factional governments tried last week to unite. Only last spring the Canton Government was reviling "Nanking's rococo façade" while the Nanking Government denounced Canton Foreign Minister Eugene Chen as a Bolshevik Red. Both charges were at least half truths, but last week Canton and Nanking found it possible to exchange envoys and draft a secret program for concerted action (TIME, June...
Earl Carroll was born in Pittsburgh 39 years ago. He quit school when he was 10, became a program boy in the local theatres. At 16 he set out for the Orient, knocked about Shanghai, Canton, Hongkong. When he got home he began writing plays and song lyrics. He wrote the lyrics for the late great Enrico Caruso's "Dreams of Long Ago." Then Oliver Morosco called him out to California to write the music and lyrics for the oldtime hit So Long Letty. After that he wrote Eddie Cantor's first musical comedy, Canary Cottage. By the time...
...President for 1930 was Dr. Jean Musy). Born Sept. 6, 1868 in a small town in the canton of Thurgau, Heinrich Haberlin studied law at the Universities of Zurich, Leipzig and Berlin, then rose in the small...
Take a pencil. Take a U. S. map. Draw a line from Canton, Ohio, to Williamsport, Pa., then to the middle of the southern Tennessee border, then back to Canton. Within that wedge lies the great eastern bituminous coal field. Mark off the central third of the wedge: the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the northern spike of West Virginia, a narrow strip that lies beyond the Ohio River in Ohio. If you drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes...