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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most potent men in China, one of the most trusted advisers of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, is "Organizer Chen Li-fu" as he likes to be called. In organizing the "New Life Movement," the "Culture Control Movement" and other causes dear to the Generalissimo & Mme Chiang right down to the "Read-a-Book Movement," no Chinese has won more kudos than Organizer Chen. Last week Hankow correspondents asked the Great Organizer to confirm or deny persistent rumors in high Chinese quarters that he has been advising the Generalissimo to make peace with Japan. Replied Chen Li-fu: "Our fundamental policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Honorable Peace? | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Jocularly, Mr. Kennedy began by relating that when Mrs. Kennedy first heard what was in his mind as he prepared his Trafalgar Day Speech, she cautioned : "Have you thought how this would sound back home? You know, Dear, our ambassadors are supposed to lose all their powers of resistance when they get to London. You don't want folks to get the idea that you are seeing things through English eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Kennedy on Antagonisms | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...this and getting used to the bite of the collar button as it dug into his throat. But he didn't really mind too much. The thing had to be done, and it was only once in three years. He looked over the letter lying on his desk. "Dear Vag: Will you give the Associates and Tutors and pleasure of your company at the head table at the October House Dinner.... We usually wear dinner coats, but that is by no means essential if it is in any way inconvenient...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

Ever since the Purge failed and showed Democratic Senators that it is safe to have minds of their own, a paramount question has been: will non-New Deal Democrats attempt to unhorse Kentucky's plodding, obedient "Dear Alben" Barkley as Majority Leader? To do so would in effect amount to purging the Senate of Roosevelt leadership. Last week, in an otherwise unimportant newspaper spat between Montana's utterly independent Democrat Burton K. Wheeler and New Jersey's obedient Democrat William Smathers, came an answer. Declaring that there would be no attempted Barkley ouster, Mr. Wheeler said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Answer on Barkley | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Celebrating what she called her 46th* birthday with a jolly, jampacked jubilee in Los Angeles' Angelus Temple, Evangelist Aimee ("Dear Sister") Semple McPherson romped out in front of her congregation appropriately dressed as a milkmaid, carrying a glistening pail brimful of milk. Pals and paid hands on the stage were treated to drinks. When the pail was empty, Sister Aimee began to sing (see cut), then took up a collection, dumped it in the pail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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