Word: keepeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This much about the skirmishing is authenticated: Outer Mongolia is a backdoor, not only to China, but to Russian Siberia. If and when the Japanese and Russians decide to fight for keeps, the barren Mongolian plateau will see its biggest battles since the days of Ghengis Khan. In preparation for that day, Russia has declared a virtual protectorate over the Mongol Peoples' Republic, raised a Mongol Army of 250,000 and equipped it with modern military gadgets-artillery, tanks, machine guns, righting planes. The Mongol Army's greatest accomplishment has been to keep some 350,000 of Japan...
Scientifiction's fans, mostly boys of 16 to 20, are the jitterbugs of the pulp magazine field. Many keep every issue, and a copy of the magazine's first issue often fetches $25 from collectors. Publishers soon discovered another odd fact about their readers: They are exceptionally articulate. Most of these magazines have letters columns, in which readers appraise stories. Sample: "Gosh! Wow! Boyoh-boy!, and so forth and so on. Yesiree, yesiree, it's the greatest in the land and the best that's on the stand, and I do mean THRILLING WONDER STORIES...
More determined to keep their backs up are the independent pacifist organizations, whose membership is small but whose zeal for propaganda is great. Typical of these is the Fellowship of Reconciliation (8,500 members), whose vice chairman, Rev. Abraham J. Muste, is the No. 1 U. S. pacifist. Lean, sparse Preacher Muste, director of Manhattan's Labor Temple and chairman of a new United Pacifist Committee, is, as far as pure pacifism goes, a Johnny-come-lately; a Marxist, he used to advocate revolution by violence...
Most big-time radio programs like to take summer vacations because: 1) their performers usually need the rest, 2) radio listening falls off during the summer. Many sponsors this year, to keep the pot boiling during the dog days, are replacing their regular shows with others less expensive, some are giving their time over to try-out shows or sustaining programs, taking advantage of new policies of both NBC and CBS which, under some circumstances, assure vacationing advertisers of their accustomed air spots again, come fall...
Last week, unable to effect a compromise that would keep R. M. F. out of ruinous reorganization, she stepped out. Old Vice President John R. Lawson, onetime president of Colorado's Federation of Labor, resigned and took three months' pay. Into Rocky Mountain Fuel's offices in Denver moved William Taylor, president of Cleveland's Coal Mine Management Co. His aim: to reorganize R. M. F.. put it back on a paying basis. Colorado mine union leaders talked to Reorganizer Taylor, said they were satisfied no change in labor policies was intended...