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A bomb thrown by an insurgent Korean some years ago lodged 32 splinters in Mr. Shigemitsu's leg and forced its amputation. Today he stumps briskly about, aided by a heavy, crooked cane, and last week he was up night after night, stumping into the Soviet Foreign Office at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: Hit Back Harder | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

When your golf club has a swatfest, father & son tournament or other unique contest with a handsome goblet as prize, the chances are that it has been instigated by the Professional Golfers' Association of America, commonly called the PGA. Founded in 1916 by several eastern professionals, PGA is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Golf Ball Crackdown | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

From Chicago, fuel was heaped last week onto the already blazing fire. The heaper was Chicago's erudite, 64-year-old Roman Catholic Archbishop, George William Cardinal Mundelein, who started life on Manhattan's lower East Side and early won renown as a youthful orator. Before 500 Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Holy War | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Maids. Psychiatrist Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins reported on the results of a cruel traffic in imbecile girls which flourished in Baltimore 15 years ago. Employers looking for cheap household help had connived with crooked lawyers and judges to release girls, both white and Negro, from Baltimore's asylums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatrists at Pittsburgh | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Though many a present-day author incites to political action, few have practised what they preach. One of the few is André Malraux (Man's Fate); Ralph Bates is another. Frenchman Malraux served on a revolutionary committee in the abortive Communist rising in Canton (1927), lived to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Divers | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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