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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should be happy if you would explain this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 13, 1937 | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...vast astonishment of the Tokyo press corps last week, that usually suave diplomat, Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, took the gloves off and bluntly explained that the real purpose of Japan's expeditionary force is not to conquer China, but to kick out Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In words chosen with far less tact than his sovereign was about to use to explain the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Hirota observed: "We are fighting anti-Japanese movements in China. These exist largely in the Chinese Army, and General Chiang Kai-shek is their spearhead. The leaders of present-day China have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Frankness | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...drug which Dr. Matsner had in mind has no such effects, said he last week. More than that he could not explain. Reasons: English experimenters'" working with the substance have proved its efficacy on apes, whose reproductive mechanism functions exactly like women's. They are now testing it on humans, want to avoid public discussion until its usefulness is assured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Women & Toads | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

...officer smiled triumphantly. "Well, buddy, suppose you explain why you've got Ohio tags on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Coincidence-of-the-Week | 8/30/1937 | See Source »

President Marcellus Lindsey Joslyn tried to explain this away as a product of the company's pension system started in 1919. If his pension system did not deserve all the credit, yet it still remains after 18 years quite as notable as this year's increase in profits. The company neither advertises nor seeks publicity, so the Joslyn plan never made much stir until last winter when the company prepared to sell $1,350,000 worth of common stock. Financial writers then discovered Marcellus Joslyn's old labor policy, adopted during the post-War period of strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Poles & Pensions | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

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