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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan has been against Russia ever since anyone can remember, but the Soviet Union and the Japanese Empire were all ready to sign once again last week their periodic treaty whereby Japanese pay for the privilege of fishing in the Far East waters of the Soviet (TIME, March 5, 1934). With the 1936 version of this document agreed to by both countries and an hour appointed for its signature in Moscow last week, abruptly Comrade Litvinoff refused to sign. Moreover, last week when a foreigner was sentenced to death for the first time in the history of Soviet propaganda trials...
...Patent Office as an autonomous organization. Lionized were six famed inventors: Orville Wright; Simon Lake, pioneer submarine experimenter who is currently trying to salvage $4,000,000 in gold from the hulk of an old British frigate at the bottom of New York's East River; Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, RCA-Victor television ace; William David Coolidge, General Electric's No. 1 x-ray researcher; Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion radio tube; and Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite...
...Union Theological Seminary. When he was about 30, his father summoned him to learn the family business, but his deep religious feeling has found outlets in innumerable charities and philanthropies. Cultured, musical, humorous, an inveterate joiner, he lives half the year in a big mansion on Manhattan's East 66th Street, half the year on an estate in Sea Bright...
Baragwanath's two biggest adventures were finding some Inca treasure and buying a salted mine that cost his employers, American Mining & Smelting Co., $30,000. The Inca treasure turned up while he was hunting for coal on the Andean plateau east of Port of Salaverry, Peru. He saw some natives wading in a lake during a snowstorm, investigated, found they were taking out gold and silver ornaments. He jumped in with them and got 75 pieces, which he gave to the American Museum of Natural History...
...diligent reader, Chinese "news" is completely unsatisfactory. Always censored, always violently propagandistic, it reenforces a feeling of helplessness and drives him, unwillingly, into a kind of despairing fatalism. The United States has, however, as much concern for the facts, needs to be forwarned just as much in the East as in the West...