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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese inhabitant, but keeping down nationalism is like sitting on a horse's head-there's no time to do anything else. The Chinese should study Communism." In Hawaii, though he refused to be garlanded with lei, he said: "I sincerely hope you never permit Christianity to destroy or change the beauty of your dances. They have the charm of unspoiled nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Great Insulter | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

Died, Charles E. Eveleth, 57, vice president of General Electric Co.. War-time developer of a submarine detector which Allied forces used to destroy 15, cripple 35 German U-boats; after long illness; in Schenectady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 3, 1933 | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...limit tanks to 16 tons each (largest present tanks weigh 81 tons). ¶To destroy all prohibited armaments within three years after the coming into force of the treaty which would run for five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ramsay, War & Benito | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...destroy enough military airplanes so that Six Great Powers (France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia and the U. S.) would stand on a basis of parity with 500 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ramsay, War & Benito | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

...When the Directors finally made up their minds to arrest him Knox and his rebels had disappeared. From a lonely Arctic island Knox defied I. A. & A., smashed their fleet and the pax aeronautica to hopeless fragments. When his followers discovered that Knox thought himself sent by heaven to destroy the world, in horror they tried to halt the spreading catastrophe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arlen into Wells | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

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