Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese politics everything is indirect. Leaders of the present conservative Nanking Government got their start as revolutionaries in Canton. Openly accepting Russian gold and assisted by Moscow's most effective propagandist. Comrade Michael Borodin, they launched a war of conquest which swept across all China (TIME, Sept. 7, 1925 et seq.). Their innate wisdom caused them to break with Moscow at exactly the right moment. Triumphantly installed at Nanking, they washed their hands of everything Communist, sent Comrade Borodin packing, appealed for recognition by all the Great Powers and gradually obtained...
...physical activity in Wall Street, no matter how trivial, is sure to make runners, clerks, bondsalesmen et al. stop and gape. Large groups often gather about a man sawing a board. Last week when truckmen began to unload 60-lb. cases, neatly wrapped in matting, before the House of Morgan, the usual crowd swelled to near-riot proportions. Though the cases were plainly labeled "BLACK TEA-Product of China. Foochow, China," reports quickly spread that J. P. Morgan & Co. had received a huge shipment of gold from the Orient. Guards when questioned muttered: "We don't know nothing...
...Moscow Izvestia ("News"). Specifically Izvestia has charged that the British Intelligence Service is preparing "bogus documents" to prove that Dictator Josef Stalin, acting through the Moscow headquarters of the World Communist Party (Third International) had something to do with fomenting the British "Hunger March" on London (TIME, Oct. 31 et seq.). A British motive for its alleged propaganda, according to Izvestia, was a desire to prevent a rapprochement between U. S. and Soviet Governments...
...Dalton System" of its Founder Helen Parkhurst, a method of learning-by-doing which the U. S. S. R. adopted, but dropped this autumn because young Russians loafed at it. The downtown City & Country School (once the Play School) centers all its activities in work, teaches arithmetic, geography et al. in the school store and school post office, as well as by field trips throughout Manhattan. Fortnight ago came news of another Progressive school, young and bold, in many respects unique in the U. S. Croton-on-Hudson. N. Y. is a quiet village near Harmon, where New York Central...
...Games two weeks later she won two first prizes (javelin throw, 80-meter hurdles), a second in the high-jump when her best jump was disqualified for ''diving." She complained bitterly because she was not allowed to enter more events. Sportswriters Grantland Rice, Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler et al. were sufficiently amazed by Babe Didrikson to investigate her abilities further. She played her nth round of golf for their benefit, amazed them afresh by averaging more than 200 yd. with her drives, scoring under 90. When it was established that Babe Didrikson is also an expert swimmer, basketball...