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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Not permitted to quote Mr. Stimson's original words, each correspondent had had to make what he could of them. The Associated Pressman came to the conclusion that, since Mr. Stimson could not "understand" the advance of the Japanese Army contrary to so many assurances, State Department officials doubtless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHURIA: Run Amuck | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Died. John Haydock Carroll, 73, railroad lawyer, general counsel for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Northern Pacific Railroads, assistant to the president of Baltimore & Ohio, personal legal adviser to the late Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill; after long illness; in Washington. For 32 years his parentage was unknown to him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Movies in foreign languages have been vaunted as short cuts to a Ph.D. but actually their value as an easy means to master another tongue seem greatly exaggerated. What can be gained from foreign movies besides the language however, is a feeling for the atmosphere and the qualities of another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAGIC CASEMENTS | 12/3/1931 | See Source »

Then she met Zachery Westcott, young naval officer. They made a mutual impression, but Leda was as rude to him as possible, tried to keep from seeing him. When daughter Marise met Westcott she fell in love with him very quickly; Leda, blind where her daughter was concerned, never noticed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bitter Almonds | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Radio announcer of that game for Columbia Broadcasting Co. was staccato Edward ("Ted") Husing. Sharing with many football experts an impression that Wood's strategies were not such as could be expected from a Phi Beta Kappa quarterback, Announcer Husing described his play as "putrid." Harvard men wrote letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 23, 1931 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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