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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the grand total of Japanese losses at Taierchwang was conservatively estimated by neutral foreigners at between 7,000 and 10,000, but the Chinese Generalissimo's headquarters estimated that the Imperial Japanese Government had now massed half-a-million men for the purpose of attempting this week to wipe out their defeats, smash through to Suchow. Best reconstruction from the battlefield of the Taierchwang fighting was sent by Chicago Daily Newsman A. T. Steele: "0verconfidence and contempt for the Chinese army had much to do with the Japanese defeat. The Chinese set a trap with Taierchwang...
...along the Grand Canal sector north of Suchow, furiously-battling Chinese surged forward in frontal attacks. At Taierhchwang, scene of back-&-forth fighting for a fortnight, the Chinese hurled new Soviet tanks, fresh German-trained troops into the line, recaptured the city. At last reports the Japanese had dug in at Yihsien, 20 miles to the rear, where they were attempting to consolidate their forces in the area. Chinese armies hammered against the town in an effort to drive the Japanese farther back...
...find out whether such facts of life could legally be kept from U. S. citizens, Publisher Roy E. Larsen this week agreed to a test arrest and trial in The Bronx. District Attorney Foley, who had told reporters he would personally arrest Publisher Larsen, passed responsibility to The Bronx grand jury when Mr. Larsen sold a copy of the banned LIFE to a detective while Mr. Foley looked...
...cinema industry's penchant for hooking titles of best sellers to stories that are unfaithful to the originals. Hollywood got away with making Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm a Shirley Temple song-&-dance, Havelock Ellis' Dance of Life a story of burlesque shows. But last week FTC charged Grand National Films with "unfair competition" in releasing a love story under the name In His Steps, after the 1896 religious story of that name by Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon which has sometimes outsold every book but the Bible...
Today you can forget for a moment the Spanish war, the Chinese war, the Government spending-lending plan. Roosevelt, Hitler, Mussolini, Daladier are today just ordinary persons. The Olympic games, the Grand National, the Wimbledon and Davis Cup tennis, Rose Bowl football; they are just ordinary sports events. For today is the start of the world's biggest sports spectacle the opening of the major league baseball season, with sixteen teams ready to start a 154-game grind down to the home stretch and the World Series...