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Word: handly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word, "requests" was written in the President's hand in place of "suggests" which appeared in the original draft. The memorandum also asked for a full apology, compensation, and guarantees against a repetition of such attacks. Since Japan's Emperor Hirohito, to Japanese minds, is a divinity who is not of the Government but above it, the knottiest problem posed for trie Japanese was 1) how to bring the matter to his attention or 2) how to avoid doing so without offending the U. S. By week's end Washington was assured that the Roosevelt note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Panay Pandemonium | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...scene had shifted from Washington to Chicago's bustling Hotel Sherman, to the 19th convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. There two men who have written most of the farm legislation of the New Deal finally saw the parting of their ways at hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Parting | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...benefit payments to cooperate in crop reduction programs and giving loans on amounts withheld from the market: and compulsory control-levying penalties on excess production. Secretary Wallace observed in his annual report last month that although voluntary methods were preferable, compulsory methods should be invoked when crop reserves on hand grew too large. So Ed O'Neal and his Federation helped draft the Pope-McGill Bill accepting the compulsory principle wholeheartedly, setting permissible crop reserves at the low levels they considered necessary to maintain prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Parting | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Hissing politely, hat in hand, hundreds of worried Japanese citizens stopped everyone who looked to them like a U. S. citizen on the streets of Tokyo last week to offer their personal apologies for the sinking of the U. S. gunboat Panay (TIME, Dec. 20). This latest outburst of runaway Japanese militarism gave the Japanese public a sudden revealing picture of the irresponsibility of Japanese officers in China, and threatened to do the one thing that intelligent Japanese statesmen fear-drive the U. S. to take forceful action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Regrets | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...bodies in the streets. Houses and shops were looted, women raped and the whole city ravaged according to an immemorial custom of war. Even fleeing refugees with whom the Japanese caught up were looted of their belongings. Only after the Japanese soldiers, drunk with victory, had been out of hand for several days did officers get them under control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At the Tomb | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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