Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese capital's railroad communications. One column pierced to within 30 miles of Sinyang, on the Peking-Hankow line 120 miles north of Hankow. A second edged to within 60 miles of Sienning, on the Hankow-Canton Railway 70 miles south of the capital. The main Japanese force, supported by the navy, threatened heavily fortified Tienchiachen, in the narrow gorges of the Yangtze River 100 miles below Hankow. At week's end Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's best troops withstood a second heavy Japanese assault at this point. The capture of Tienchiachen would almost certainly cause...
...Tribune), handsome, pugnacious Howard O. Hunter, Assistant Administrator who bosses 1,250,000 WPA clients in 13 Midwest States, gave the Tribune a thorough tongue-lashing for "filthy editorializing" and "vicious propaganda." Then he handed each man a 25-sheet mimeographed release stuffed with facts and affidavits backing his main charge: in every case "in which specific persons or locations are named . . . every statement published by the Tribune was found to be false...
...Bulldog Drummond In Africa" is a routine detective thriller useful only as a foil for the main feature...
...Main factor in the 6% participation increase and the 62% drop in defaults registered last year was the inauguration of a central administration of House sports and paid managers in each House, Samborski finds...
McLaughry, besides the fact that he is the son of the boss, is a 200-pound bucking back of real ability on the offense, but his defensive qualities re-is, according to Providence authorities, main questionable. O'Leary, however, a regular Clint Frank on defense...