Word: minor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swatow. Japan's victory-of-the-week over China was at the treaty port of Swatow, 180 miles north of Hong Kong. Here Japan also suffered a minor diplomatic defeat from western nations. Once a city of 178,000, Swatow had been bombed by Japanese planes daily for the last ten weeks. All electric lights had been cut off, the waterworks were out of order, the municipal buildings were all destroyed. By day Swatow was a deserted city, but at night, when no bombers came, it hummed with shipping activity. To the port came British, French, U. S., Scandinavian...
...Arab world's biggest loss last week took place at Ankara, capital of Turkey, where the French and the Turks signed a treaty ceding to Turkey the Republic of Hatay. This 1,500-square-mile region, situated just south of the big bulge of Turkish Asia Minor, was known until last September as the Sanjak of Alexandretta. It was geographically a part of Syria, held in mandate by France, and hence an integral part of that great Empire which Pan-Arab leaders envision creating some day. One of its cities is Antioch, where Paul and Barnabas taught...
...plan because he is close to RCA's front door: its President David Sarnoff is his good friend. Keeping it under their hats, such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the New Friends of Music Orchestra recorded such works as the Beethoven Fifth Symphony, the Mozart G-Minor Symphony. Post readers could get each album (three or more disks) by presenting 24 vouchers clipped from the paper, plus $1.93 in cash. From the first week-during which Jacob Omansky died -the venture was a success. Up to last week, when the eighth of the album series was released...
...Dodgers to join the Giants-all within 14 months. Last week, on the same day that old Pete Alexander, along with ten other living Immortals, was installed in Baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, Tony Lazzeri quit major-league ballplaying, signed up as manager of the minor-league Toronto Maple Leafs...
...minors, Manager Lazzeri will match wits with many a famed onetime major-leaguer. Among his rivals in the International League (Class AA) are three former big-league managers: Rogers Hornsby (Baltimore Orioles), Burleigh Grimes (Montreal Royals) and Steve O'Neill (Buffalo Bisons). Other famed big-leaguers now managing minor-league teams: Donie Bush (Louisville Colonels), Roger Peckinpaugh (New Orleans Pelicans), Lefty O'Doul (San Francisco Seals), Rabbit Maranville (Albany Senators), Kiki Cuyler (Chattanooga Lookouts), Blondy Ryan (Clinton, la. Giants), Goose Goslin (Trenton Senators...