Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with murderous freedom. In Shansi Province, "occupied" by Japanese for four months, 28 divisions of the Chinese Communist 8th Route Army move about organizing the peasants into a Communistic province within a province. At Peking, Chinese soldiers last week attacked the power house outside the city walls. In Shanghai, frequent firing is still heard as Chinese bands raid the outskirts. In its year in the field, the self-styled invincible Japanese Army met its first major defeat in modern military history as hordes of ill-equipped Chinese soldiers forced the invaders out of the now famed little town of Taierhchwang...
...that Japan has her hands full in China France, concerned for the safety of Indo-China, is evidently changing her original policy of trying to protect her eastern empire by currying favor with the Japanese. Consequently, in frequent brushes in Japanese-occupied Peking and Shanghai, the French have stood up to the Japanese much more firmly than the representatives of the U. S. and Britain. Fortnight ago the French again pulled Japan's nose. Last February an agreement was reached tending to facilitate payment of French commercial credits owed by Japan. Recently French creditors informed the French Foreign Office...
...while it substantially upped production, has benefited the large landowners who could make use of Government cultivation aids. These landowners annually sell their surplus stocks to the Government at a high price but the average peasant produces only enough for his own needs, has nothing left to sell. Despite frequent cash doles to the peasants, their standard of living has declined so that, especially in the areas south of Naples, some are clothed in tattered rags, live in hovels no better than pigsties...
Jews in Tripoli have been beaten up. Preferment in the army has been quietly given to non-Jews. Anti-Jewish editorials have been more and more frequent in such Fascist organs as Regime Fascista, II Tevere. When Hitler visited Rome in May hundreds of Jews were temporarily imprisoned. Jews are being frozen out of the theatre, out of literature. Last fortnight booksellers were officially forbidden to display books by Italian Jews, publishers to print translations of books by foreign Jews...
...reporting of the sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the New York Times. After 16 years with the Times and four years with the New York Herald Tribune, he began a lucrative career as a freelance writer, achieved wide renown as a frequent author of the New Yorker's Profiles...