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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prohibits arms shipments "in violation of a treaty" and the 1921 peace treaty specifically prohibits "importation into Germany of arms, munitions and war materials." That day, Columnist Drew Pearson, co-author of the Merry-Go-Round, attended a State Department press conference at which his column instantly became the main topic of discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Cornfield Lawyers | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...main battle of the war last week was still being fought northeast of Suchow, from 15 to 50 miles north of the eastern end of the Lunghai Railway. Into an area more than half the size of Long Island, General Li Tsung-jen, commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Area, had poured about 650,000 Chinese soldiers for what six months ago would have been a real anomaly-a Chinese offensive. Opposing them were 100,000 well-trained, well-armed Japanese troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Lost Optimism | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...beautiful in woman"), set sail for the U. S. via the Philippines, the South Seas, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the South Atlantic. Not for glory, not for science, but just for fun, the Bakers bucked monsoons for 600 miles from Sumatra to Ceylon, saw their main boom snapped during a vicious squall in the Indian Ocean, spent three days on a tiny tropical island while the spar was being repaired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Businessman's Dream | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Over 80 members of the Harvard R. O. T. C. will sail the Spanish Main on the annual summer practice cruise of the unit this summer. Last summer the marines visited San Juan, Porto Rico, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Kingston, Jamaica...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naval ROTC Cruise In Summer Features Three Day Sojourn in Havana | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

...students are so busy that the opportunity must remain closed to them; the main obstacles are laziness and intellectual torpidity. Possibly the University would do well to aid in overcoming student inertia by rewarding not only auditing but all forms of worth-while extra-course study; certainly, along with the American History Plan, auditing is potentially a means of furthering the ideal of the University-that every student shall receive a broad cultural training, shall "learn a new way of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

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