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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five foreign countries with the greatest number of Harvard residents are Canada, 703; China, 360; France, 255; England, 252; and Japan, 224. Such countries as Algeria, British Guiana, Celebes, Iceland, Manchukuo and the Society Islands are included in this world-wide tabulation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Harvard Alumni Directory Just Off Press: Contains Important Geographical Tabulation | 10/3/1934 | See Source »

Last year the Oriental haggle began with a ridiculous Japanese bid of 50 million gold yen,† offered through the Manchukuo Government. Russia countered with an asking price of 250,000,000 rubles. By fits and starts the margin narrowed, between intervals of "deadlock," to a bid of 150,000,000 yen, an asked of 190,000,000 gold rubles. Last week the semi-official Rengo News Agency announced that the agreed price for the Chinese Eastern was 170,000,000 yen ($50,728,000 Roosevelt), plus Soviet Russia's recognition of Manchukuo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: Haggle's End | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...Port Arthur, the Kwantung Peninsula and the southern half of Sakhalin, the Formosa earthquake of 1906 killed 1,228. After the Treaty of Versailles gave Japan a precious bagful of Pacific Island mandates, came the terrible earthquake of 1923 which killed 91,344. And three years ago Japan grabbed Manchukuo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Juggernaut of Air | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

Japan's Commander of the Combined Fleet Vice Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu arrived in Manchukuo's port of Dairen last week at the head of all the Emperor's war boats. Said he: "Manchukuo must build an ocean fleet when her finances are better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Fleet; Order | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...Foreign Policy Association of the U. S. fortnight ago published a report on Manchukuo prepared by its expert, Ben Dorfman. Declared Expert Dorfman: "It is extremely doubtful that Manchuria today enjoys as great a measure of peace and order as prevailed immediately prior to Sept. 18, 1931 [the night Japanese troops attacked Mukden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Fleet; Order | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

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