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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politicians asked each other in whispers whether Bigelow could summon up enough referendum votes to make him a prospective candidate for Governor. Said his campaign director, Charles H. Hubbell: "The amendments will be approved at the polls and then the people of Ohio will elect as their Governor the man who conceived them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Bogeyman | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...killed and a Sikh colleague wounded in a Shanghai fracas, polo-playing, hard-working Chairman Cornell S. Franklin of the Shanghai Municipal Council announced that he might ask U. S. Marines to come into the International Settlement and do something the Japanese love to do-restore order. Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, popping in and out of his fortified castle in Shanghai's "badlands," announced he was "satisfied that Japan's peace conditions toward China do not infringe on China's sovereignty or territorial rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Straight from the Mouth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile the Harvard A. I. L. has been making plans for its first membership meeting in order to outline future policy and to elect officers. Donald C. McKay, assistant professor of History, will speak at the rally to be held at 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening in Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A. I. L. CHAPTERS WILL HOLD MEETING AT FAIR | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

Both the Chinese and the Japanese last week used the name of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei as "reason" for the renewed offensive. Chinese officials warned their own people, and Japanese officials admitted, that the new pressure was intended to intimidate, discourage, force the populace of South China into endorsement of peace under Puppet-elect Wang. But as the Chinese claimed defense of Changsha was stiffening, Japanese admitted that the creation of Wang's Super-Puppetry had been postponed from mid-October to mid-November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Patriots' Peace | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...snapped: "What of it?" He weathered an investigation by the Pennsylvania Legislature, which in 1935 threatened to cut off the university's life line of State aid (a fourth of Pitt's in come), but eventually let Dr. Bowman off with a mild bill permitting alumni to elect 15 of Pitt's 33 trustees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boot for Bowman | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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