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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would push farther north and pick a real quarrel with Soviet Russia. Last week Harbin was exciting because Tokyo had heard from London which had it from Riga that in Moscow last week highest officials of the Communist Party stood around a table upon which Josef Stalin banged his fist, explaining his "Harbin Policy": Peace. Tokyo was titillated by the possibility that this "inside dope" might be wrong, that Russia might fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Imperial Deeds | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...2OC/C interest in Kansas City Southern, thereby forming the nucleus of what could be welded into a new Chicago-Gulf route (TIME. Oct. 26). Although the deal came as a surprise, nobody thought it inconsistent with Presi dent Joyce's nature. He is aggressive from head to foot, fist to jaw. Chicago-born ("back of the yards") 52 years ago, he began work when he left grammar school, pushing a wheelbarrow in a brickyard. He rose until he was president of the Mellon-controlled Standard Steel Car Co., now a part of Pullman. He plays golf only as a concession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: End of an Era | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...gentleman there." Witness Ryder said Capone's friends "gave me a sandwich sometimes," thought "Mr. Al was a mighty fine man," even though he still owed him $125. He told of being paid $250 from "a roll that would choke an ox"?as big as Judge Wilkerson's fist. "There were money wrappers by the handful around the place. All marked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Who Wouldn't Be Worried? | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...such leading Manchurian cities as Harbin and Kirin. Finally in Tokyo suave General Jiro Minami, Japanese War Minister credited with secretly ordering the whirl wind Japanese occupation of Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28), appeared before the Japanese Cabinet last week with a sheaf of telegrams in his small, hard fist. According to General Minami, the Chinese citizens of Harbin had just plumped enthusiastically for secession of Manchuria from China, arraying themselves for this purpose under Chinese General Chang Ching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Secessionist Movements | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...Pueblo, Col., Gerald Hines told his wife to meet him on a street corner. Gerald Hines went to a corner and waited. His wife did not come. Gerald Hines got madder & madder, so mad that he smashed his fist through a store window. Gerald Hines was taken to a hospital. His wife continued to wait at another corner, the one he had said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Storage | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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