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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Master, fly for your life!" shrilled a good and faithful servant last week at Chinese Foreign Minister C. T. Wang, Yale 1910, Phi Beta Kappa. "I shall remain at my post and attend to my duties," boldly retorted Minister Wang. Crash, rip, zip, bang! A frenzied mob of students rushed the Foreign Office, burst through hastily locked doors, hurled chairs and toppled desks, charged in wild pandemonium for Mr. Wang. "Traitor!" they yelled. "You have betrayed China! Death, death to Wang!" Before defenseless Minister Wang could rise, a well hurled inkpot gashed his head. Mobsmen with clubs laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Minister Mobbed | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...flew as low as he dared, straining for the welcome sight of wind-sock or hangar-roof. After a nerve-wrenching period of groping his heart leapt. There on the ground was a plane! Pilot Vale carefully swung around into the wind, put his ship into a glide, and-Crash! . . . The fuselage of the Vales' plane, with its two occupants uninjured was wedged tight in the branches of a tree. Wings & motor were strewn about. The plane on the ground, which had decoyed Pilot Vale into a landing, was one which a youth was building in his yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Decoy | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...craft slid from the ways at Arendal, Norway, in the year 1886. No expense or genius was spared in her construction, for she was built to crash a path through the ice to the sealing fields, where the smaller, weaker vessels of the seal-fishing fleet could follow. 210 feet long over all, and of 31 foot beam, the sheathing of her three-foot-thick hull is of greenheart, a wood now very rare, but known for its ability to resist the tearing grind of the ice. On one of her first voyages north with the sealers, she carried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Byrd's Ship, on Inspection Tour, Offers Intimate Glimpse of Living in Antarctic | 10/2/1931 | See Source »

...Judge Robert Worth Bingham. He poured nearly five million dollars into the combined papers, did make a fairly potent political mouthpiece. But he could not shake the traditional supremacy of the Courier-Journal, achieved in the days of the late great Editor "Marse Henry," Watterson. After BancoKentucky's crash, Publisher Brown started an economy regime in the Herald-Post. An inferior paper was the result. Last December the daily went into bankruptcy; last week it was sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Banker's Sideline | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...been on the first flight, when the storms had beaten them down to the very treetops. At the end of 20 hr. the end came. It was near Ufa, 700 mi. beyond Moscow. Doret bailed out, landed safely with his 'chute. Lebrix and Mesmin died in the crash of the Hyphen II. Doret was vaguely quoted as saying that the engine had exploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Hyphen, Question Mark, Period | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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