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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Japan would say should Patrick Jay Hurley write such an article for the Army & Navy Journal, U. S. citizens could only guess. Uchida. Count Yasuya Uchida, the man who kept all this boiling by his historic "fissiparous" speech in the Diet, is a gracious, grey-haired gentleman of 67 who dresses exquisitely, is very fond of a cup of hot sake (rice whisky), has a fine collection of Chinese silk paintings and likes to sing old Japanese utai (folk ballads) in the garden of his home with a group of cronies. Only to patriotic Chinese do his black-socked...
...guess Groucho Marx wouldn't like it so much if he thought, as I did at first, that you meant he personally was "depraved" (TIME, Aug. 15). Friends tell me that he is a very nice gentleman, good to his wife and not a bit a loose character...
...stay and the quicker we recognize it the better." This year when the deluge started, Mr. McAdoo became less sure of the permanence of the 18th Amendment. He commenced mumbling the familiar weasel: "Referendum." After his party declared for Repeal, he went silent on Prohibition, left primary voters to guess what he favored...
Sure Hoover-131, including Iowa, Kansas and California. Doubtful Hoover-153, including New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Wisconsin. Sure Roosevelt-168, including Missouri. Doubtful Roosevelt-79, including Indiana, Illinois, Washington, Nebraska. Total: Hoover-284; Roosevelt-247. Vigilantly nonpartisan, TIME will make no guess at the result of the election, take no sides in the campaign, report the political facts as they develop without fear or favor for either candidate...
...Chang had never the influence or the ability of his sly father, the late great Chang Tso-lin. Japan's occupation of Manchuria has ruined him financially, disgraced him as a soldier, emasculated his ragged army. What the final result of these two resignations will be few dared guess last week. It was obvious that the strange sort of equilibrium by which the Nationalist Government has remained in power for the past four years was broken...