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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victory announcements. Last week a badly needed Japanese victory was supplied when twelve Japanese warships, 20 warplanes and a landing party of 1,000 sailors and marines planted the Rising Sun flag on the important, poorly defended island of Amoy, in South China. While the capture of Amoy might mean that the Japanese were preparing for a push in South China to cut off Chiang Kai-shek's munitions route, most observers believed that Japan wanted an easy victory to announce at home and that the restless, jealous Japanese Navy wanted a little glory for itself...
They have blindly ignored the fact that increased wages mean increased costs of production. The only thing which can really revive business from a depression is profits, and higher costs destroy profits. Thus wage hikes are an effective barricade in the road of prosperity. At the present time we have the anomaly of an Administration spending $3,700,000,000 to drag business out of its doldrums and at the same time pushing it back with higher wages...
...hardly a professional Southerner, but I can't take it lying down, suh. I mean, of course, this damnable reference to Franco as "Spain's R. E. Lee." [TIME...
...Author Crow became a Confucian becomes clearer after reading Master Kung, his biography of Confucius. What attracted him to Confucius was not the official perfectionist version of China's greatest historical figure. He became a convert because Confucius seemed the perfect personification of the Golden Mean-a moralist without asceticism, a reformer without fanaticism, a conservative without bigotry, a scholar without pedantry, a rugged individualist with a social conscience-but for all that, a man with such human foibles as touchiness and misogyny...
...drawls Laramie. The next 327 pages tell how Laramie and the cowboy become close friends, how they rescue another cowpuncher, and how the three then hide out on a Colorado ranch owned by an Eastern tenderfoot named Lindsay. On this ranch there are three beautiful daughters, surrounded by mean, sneaking, fast-shooting, cattle-rustling, horse-stealing desperadoes...