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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief port, is potentially a good harbor, and a naval base there would command the Indo-China coast, some 200 miles to the west. It sits across the British Singapore-Hong Kong line and might menace the line from the Philippines to Singapore, should the U. S. and Britain ever act in concert in the East. It gives Japan a better jumping off place toward the oil-rich Netherlands Indies than it has ever had before. The Japanese Empire now stretches 2,400 miles from its farthest northern to its farthest southern outposts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Japan Steps South | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...after health follow the syndicated writings of high-spirited, publicity-wise Dr. Logan Clendening (Modern Methods of Treatment, The Human Body, The Care & Feeding of Adults). Few of his readers know that Dr. Clendening lives in a residential section of Kansas City, Mo. (near Boss Tom Pendergast) and that ever since last October he has been subjected to a severe strain. Last week Dr. Clendening cracked under the strain, committed a savage infraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Seven and one-half hours a day, six days a week, ever since October, WPAsters have been working on a sewer project 100 yards from Dr. Clendening's home. Building a sewer, as everyone knows, usually involves a lot of pneumatic drilling. One day last week the WPA foreman beheld Dr. Clendening approaching. He was brandishing an ax and shouting: "I'm going to stop this thing once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Biggest dog-show in the world is Cruft's of Great Britain. The first show was given n 1886 by Charles Cruft, who began his career serving behind the counter of a dog-biscuit shop. Ever since Queen Vic toria entered her collie and three Pomeranians in 1891, the show has been held ach year in Islington's mammoth old, red brick Royal Agricultural Hall. At its olden Jubilee Show three years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: 53rd Cruft's | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Most famous teacher of composers today is a woman: grey-haired Nadia Boulanger (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). For 30 years in her Paris studio Pedagogue Boulanger has been quietly hatching out one adept music-writer after another. Nearly every younger modernist who has ever been near Paris has taken a few lessons from her. Last week Teacher Boulanger took her prize pupil to Manhattan, there led the Philharmonic-Symphony in accompaniment while he played his best-known composition. The pupil: a slight, dark-haired, 26-year-old Frenchman named Jean Frangaix. The composition: his tricky, chattering, exuberant Piano Concerto, recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Program Notes | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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