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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bland states that there are three main sociological reasons for the backwardness of China in democratic unity: "The ills that flesh is heir to in China, the chronic destitution, disease, and discontent are directly due to the social system and religious beliefs which make procreative recklessness a duty; the only thing which can undermine this social system is a strong central government; thus a democracy is an impossibility and would lead only to rampant dissension and partition...
...This demand of Japan's cannot possibly be agreed upon by the other two power for one main reason: that the amount of ocean to be patroiled by Japan is less than one-half that covered by the other two countries. The United States must have ships in both the Atlantic and the Pacific; England must control the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean anyway, and must be able to take care of her possessions in the western hemisphere...
Dover (pop. 4,800) is the nation's third smallest State capital.* Its main street is a continuation of famed du Pont highway. Facing the highway, a handsome Colonial building on a spacious green houses minuscule Delaware's equally minuscule General Assembly. In the House there are 21 Democrats, 14 Republicans. The Republicans control the Senate of 17 by one vote. Because Dover is no more than 60 mi. from any adjoining State border, Delaware's 52 Legislators for the most part commute to work by automobile. One hundred and fifty other State officials and employes live...
...James Joyce's Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931),! the plain reader can now literally find out what Ulysses is all about. Lacking the sleuth-nose, the slot-trained paws of scholarship, even an intelligent reader will miss much the first time over the ground. At that, however, the main outlines of the story are plain...
...favorite U. S. author he would probably say John Dos Passes. If the same question were put to a Swede, the first name off his tongue would doubtless be that Nobel Prizeman Sinclair Lewis. But such a loyal Swede would have in mind Author Lewis' earlier, better books (Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry). With such a second-rate novel as Work of Art following hard on the heels of his mediocre Ann Vickers (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), readers of any nationality can see with half an eye that Sinclair Lewis is slipping. What skimpy satire there is in Work...