Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Hayao Tada. "The Deal," according to General Shang: "General Tada promised me to control the activities of the Japanese ronin now and in the future. He agreed that I shall send my 'peace preservation' troops into the demilitarized zone, which they formerly could not enter, to drive the rebel farmers out of the towns they are holding and install new Chinese magistrates who will work for friendship between China and Japan...
...Nanking Government with himself as Dictator (TIME, April 25, 1927). This week prompt Japanese rage at Nanking's fresh talk of Russia erupted in grim remarks by Japanese militarists that at the first real sign of a Nanking switchback toward Moscow, soldiers of the Divine Emperor will drive a Japanese wedge of conquest between the Soviet Union and China by seizing border lands...
Significance. As Dr. Kung warned Washington last spring, President Roosevelt's jacking up of the world price of silver (TIME, April 22) could only disorganize the price structure of China and drive her off the silver standard. The question was last week whether Mr. Roosevelt had driven China into the fiscal arms of Britain. Sir Frederick Leith-Ross of the British Exchequer has been in China for some weeks. He is rumored to have made available ?10,000,000 as a "monetary re-organization loan" to Nanking, with Chinese currency to be linked with the pound sterling. This last...
...crude as a schoolboy's but within three years he had written an Andante which was performed at the Philharmonic Stadium concerts. That was followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship which gave him two years' study in Paris. There he picked up sophisticated technique but he kept his drive and a bit of the ungainliness which he has never quite outgrown. Luck was with him when rich Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored his chamber music, when her imports, the Pro Arte Quartet from Belgium and the Roth Quartet from Budapest, decided that his was virile U. S. music which...
...opening in a new play (see p. 58), Son Will made news in California by becoming a full-fledged newspaper proprietor at 23. For $75,000 he purchased 75% interest in the Beverly Hills Citizen, a small weekly devoted chiefly to social news. Publisher Rogers plans an immediate subscription drive, thinks he can double the paper's circulation (3,000) in a year, may eventually make it a daily. He plans to write no column, was persuaded to abandon editorial innovations. Friends give him six months' active charge, predict he will thereafter return to polo...