Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bribes from both Nanking and Tokyo (TIME, March 23 et ante), but seems in the depths of his complex character to be anti-Red. Just over the Soviet frontier is the Bolshevik Far Eastern Army under able General Vasily Constantinovich Blucher. In 1924-27, Comrade Blucher, under the nom de guerre of "General Galen," was chief military adviser to Generalissimo Chiang, then supplied by Soviet Russia with money and munitions. After the Generalissimo had conquered China and publicly renounced Communism, Red General Galen was permitted to "escape" via Shanghai. He took ship there unmolested and quietly returned to Moscow, trained...
...lynch law of Latin American justice is the "ley de fuga" (law of flight). This is supposed to empower police to shoot fleeing prisoners, but in practice often means that a troublesome prisoner is set free, then drilled before he can scoot out of range. From León in Mexico's State of Guanajuato last week came a tale of ley de fuga perfect except in one particular...
...bundled off to a hospital. There he explained that after having been falsely arrested for stealing 50 head of cattle, he was set free in a deserted spot. Before Tomas Manrique had taken three steps toward liberty, a rattling volley cracked. He expected to make ley de juga history by recovering...
...should authorize the erection of a 180-ft. stainless steel statue of St. Francis on Christmas Tree Point, across the city from famed Telegraph Hill. Leading the opposition were Banker Herbert Fleishhacker and Mrs. Adolph B. Spreckels; champions for the defense were Artist William Gaskin and a Mrs. Marie de Lavega Welch West. Words grew hotter, tempers frayed...
Dynamite & Bananas. By a wide margin E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. topped its best previous figures, both on operations and investments. In 1929 Du Pont made $78,171,000, last year $92,032,000. Du Pont in 1936 took in $44,004,000 from dividends on its 10,000,000 shares of General Motors stock, compared...