Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the Chinese Government placed restrictions on imports to save its foreign exchange), the military men professed to believe that the Japanese war machine in China had bogged down. Cheeriest of all was dapper little General Chen Cheng, Political Minister of the National Military Council, one of the central figures in the Central Military Academy clique, right-hand man to the Generalissimo. Said he: "Before 1941 Japan will be begging for peace." The General's rosy picture was painted from numerous facts, figures, estimates, generalizations gathered and made by Chinese, in part substantiated by foreign observers. Background...
Japanese troops in China now number 1,000,000, are divided into 33 divisions (of 30,000 each, and three cavalry brigades). In South China there are three divisions, in Central China 14, in North China 16. This imposing array of warriors and war machines, however, is locked tight to its present conquered territory, engaged solely in guarding its garrison posts and communication lines. Against them Chinese forces in the last six months have won back more towns and outposts than they have lost. Without sending more men to China, the Chinese argue, the Japanese cannot marshal...
From Hong Kong he went on to Shanghai, later to Japanese-conquered Hankow. The Japanese recognized him as a good catch for their puppet regime. With Wang Ching-wei signed up, Japan's military diplomats hoped that a new Chinese central government could be established this week, second anniversary of the war's outbreak...
...Enough Rope, with The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Felix Salten's Bambi bringing up the rear.) Macy's sold 4,100 copies in six days. Booksellers said they brought new faces into their stores. Newsstands did an arm-aching business, as did Grand Central Terminal "train butchers...
...Tidal Wave (Republic). To frighten Good-Government voters away from the polls, a political machine fakes a terrifying television broadcast of an earthquake and tidal wave which topples Manhattan's Empire State Building, beaches a Leviathan in Wall Street, wipes Grand Central off the timetables. But it doesn't work...