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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...session of the Japanese Diet's Budget Committee, the War Minister was faced with this question: "Is it true that our Minister of Communications, His Excellency Takejiro Tokonami, took a bribe of 500,000 yuan in 1928 from the Manchurian War Lord Chang Hsueh-liang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: War Lord's Bribe | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...Lives of a Bengal Lancer has been in production ever since Paramount bought Major Francis Yeats-Brown's best-selling autobiography four years ago. Director Ernest Schoedsack (Grass, Chang) went to India, spent $200,000 on background shots of which 100 ft. appear in the finished picture. Almost every writer on Paramount's list had a hand in writing the adaptation. The original cast was changed so frequently that only two of its members-Gary Cooper and Sir Guy Standing-function in the finished version. Director Henry Hathaway, an obscure specialist in "Westerns" who had given up directing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 21, 1935 | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

Meanwhile 3,000 sweating coolies were finishing up the Dictator's new war base air field at Haichow, 250 miles from Shanghai. To Generalissimo Chiang's somewhat decadent henchman-in-arms "Young Marshal" Chang Huseh-liang, Boeing Airplane Co. delivered last week a superspeed, de luxe transport plane, luxuriously upholstered and bristling with chromium gadgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang, Kung & Chang | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...rival of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek in schemes to make Chinese more virtuous (see above) is cocky Cantonese Admiral Chang Chi-ying. Not long ago he disrupted a new-style Cantonese custom, forbade mixed bathing, proclaimed the slogan "Feminine Curves Shall Not Be Seen By Men!" Last week rueful Cantonese prepared to observe a yet more obnoxious ban: "Mixed walking in public," decreed the Canton Government, "is not compatible with the old virtues and must cease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mixed Walking | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...General rose at the Hotel New Yorker to speak in Chinese to a great Chinese Charitable & Benevolent Association banquet, did Tsai reveal the drive, the mighty earnestness and kindling magnetism of the Hero of Shanghai. No representative of China's Government was present. Also pointedly absent was little General Chang Fat-hwai of the Government's "Ironsides Division." who arrived in Manhattan fortnight ago to study U. S. military methods, and may be made War Minister when he returns to Nanking. Shanghai was supposed to be Hero Tsai's theme, but the Chinese Government knew that he was going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Resist! Resist! | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

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