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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three halts took place just outside British-owned Hong Kong waters. The British Peninsular & Oriental liner Ranpura was signaled to stop by a Japanese cruiser which fired two shots across her bow. Four officers and a party of marines boarded the ship, demanded to examine the ship's log. The captain refused, radioed Hong Kong for help. After loitering aboard ship for 20 minutes, the Japanese withdrew. The French freighter Aramis, whose skipper was not so tough, was not only halted by a destroyer but armed marines searched her. The captain of the German Hamburg-Amerika liner Sauerland, giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Stop and Search | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...over of a wild publicity orgy. So synonymous is it with all things anti-Hays that the public has decided that "Ecstasy" is Old Howard's long-awaited rival. But the reigning queens of Howard Street need have no worries about business falling off. Aside from the now-famous Log Cabin Close-up and a couple of long distance shots of Miss Lamarr loping around the countryside without a stitch to her name, the picture makes no monumental play for the baser passions. In fact, the sex in "Ecstasy" makes a noble effort to be etherial, cosmic, and all very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/23/1939 | See Source »

What Virginia's handsome Representative Clifton Woodrum called "the best job Congress has done this session" was performed last week in the House more through anger than kindness. All set for execution was a log-rolling act wherein the proponents of $150,000,000 more for WPA would vote $250,000,000 for parity payments into the farm bill, in return for rural support of the WPA money (TIME, April 3). But when the farm bill came to a vote, the city men did not make good. New York's radical Vito Marcantonio and Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Log-Roll | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile a committee of the House, where eight consecutive appropriation bills had been cut symbolically but not substantially below Budget figures, voted to undo all that economy with a farm bill to provide parity payments $244,098,376 above Budget figures. A $400,000,000 log-rolling bee between farm Congressmen and WPAdvocates hove into view. And the World War Veterans' Legislation Committee prepared to add heavily to the Government's overhead, to ask regular pensions of $40 a month for 65-year-old World Warriors-a cost of $31,000,000 a year to start with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Double Dare | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Unlike other jobholders, the President of the U. S. never gets a vacation completely free of official business. President Roosevelt, according to the official log book, has been absent from the White House, for two days or more, 64 times in six years. Majority of Presidential trips have been to Hyde Park and Warm Springs. Next to the Warm Springs baths, sea voyages, of which he has had 14, are his most relaxing respites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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