Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yellow River front, their drive on Hankow halted, Japanese armies still waited for the flood waters of "China's Sorrow" to subside. South on the Yangtze River, the main naval drive upstream on Hankow received a temporary setback at Matang, where the Chinese had blocked the stream with a boom. Finally, aided by the rising river waters, a few vessels nosed across and at week's end had pushed their way to Pengtseh, some 175 miles from Hankow...
...Main deterrent to escape is the difficulty of finding money to buy and outfit a canoe. A convict is able to make from 25 centimes (less than 1? to 1.5 francs a day, must save many years before he can hope to buy even enough food to last him on what is usually a ten or twelve-day open-ocean trip. Chief feature of a French sentence to Guiana is that it means just half of what it says. A seven-year sentence is really for 14 years-seven years at hard labor, seven years...
...honor of the U.S. attended by President Laredo Bru and Strong Man Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Well might Cuba honor Eminent Citizen Roosevelt's Administration who in 1934 signed a reciprocal trade treaty which lowered the duty on Cuban sugar, helped to restore Cuba's market for her main crop...
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's mouthpiece, the Earl of Plymouth, chairman of the Sub-Committee of the International Committee on Nonintervention, early last week succeeded in pushing through that body Britain's long-discussed plan for quarantining the Spanish War in Spain. Soviet Russia finally acquiesced. Main features of the plan were closing of land frontiers, greater vigilance of ships going to Spain, stationing of neutral observers in big Spanish ports, counting of foreigners fighting on either side, eventual withdrawal. There was a chance that this agreement actually was an agreement-for three days. Then...
...nearer settlement. Fortnight ago the Chaco Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, composed of representatives of the U. S., Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile and Uruguay, offered a solution which would have given landlocked Bolivia a port on the Paraguay river, and thus an outlet to the sea, Bolivia's main interest in having a slice of the Chaco. Paraguay flatly rejected it. "The Bolivian flag cannot fly over a port on the river bearing the name Paraguay," groused Paraguay's 75-year-old Foreign Minister Dr. Cecilio Baez to the conference. He refused to budge even after the delegates...