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Last week "Mitch" Hepburn had decided to jerk himself up by mighty tugs at the provincial bootstraps of Ontario to the Premiership of all Canada. As a build-up for this, the Premier had deliberately provoked a provincial election which he need never have to fight and was hell-bent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Mitch | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, Bob Wagner's veteran slum-clearing measure came to bat for the third time. Backed by such assorted powers as President Roosevelt, the conservative New York Times and the tory New York Herald Tribune, the bill looked like a sure thing. Sponsor Wagner crowed: "There is practical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Slum Clearance | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Weeks had elapsed since the Generalissimo was reported to be actually sending units of China's crack troops ("Chiang's Own") northward to throw the Japanese out of the Peiping area. Japanese airmen, still looking for these Chinese forces last week, flew 85 miles down the railway up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: Hitler Touch | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Japan's closely censored newsorgans meanwhile filled their columns with reports of mutinous Red Army ferment in Siberia, announced that "several hundred Red Army officers and soldiers" had been overpowered by the secret police after "resisting arrest" in Vladivostok and were being shipped toward Moscow as prisoners on two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EAST: Fresh Typhoon? | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

The Negro press rejoiced when Congressman Mitchell filed his suit. Arthur W. Mitchell was out to end the iniquitous Jim Crow system, they crowed in their lead stories. But when newshawks talked to him in Washington they found out differently. His complaint, it seemed, was not with the South'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Jim Crow Suit | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

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