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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...province within a province. At Peking, Chinese soldiers last week attacked the power house outside the city walls. In Shanghai, frequent firing is still heard as Chinese bands raid the outskirts. In its year in the field, the self-styled invincible Japanese Army met its first major defeat in modern military history as hordes of ill-equipped Chinese soldiers forced the invaders out of the now famed little town of Taierhchwang...
Chief drawing-card at a charity fête in Teddington, outside London, one day last week was a well-publicized ride by a well-clothed modern Lady Godiva. Hundreds of amused spectators lined the sidewalks as 13-year-old Mirabelle Muller, in flesh-colored trunks, brassière and long flaxen wig, mounted an old grey mare and ambled through the streets. No Peeping Tom peeked but a Prissy Peter caused lady and mare trouble...
Last week in London memories of that period were powerfully stirred by an exhibition of 20th Century German Art held at the New Burlington Galleries. Most of the recollections were melancholy. For at the gallery was plain evidence that modern German art has traced a more tragic course than that of any other European country. Still living in Berlin slums. Käthe Kollwitz reached her 71st birthday as the show opened, remained the best German woman artist. Also shown was the work of mild, good-natured Max Liebermann, who died three years ago after his work was banned...
...Steel's factories at Buffalo and Sparrows Point, Md., for example, had to cut their price for steel plate $2 more than did Big Steel in order to equalize freight difference and the effects of removing price differentials. Bluff Chairman Ernest Tener Weir of National Steel Corp., whose modern plant at Weirton, W. Va. now is distinctly at a disadvantage, sputtered that the price reductions "would be extremely costly." Little Wickwire Spencer Steel Co. was said to have protested to Washington that it might not be able to survive. Detroit. Cleveland, Sparrows Point. Md., and Middletown, Ohio, overnight became...
...Original developer of the modern field of personal financing were the Morris Plan banks. Two years ago New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora ordered Founder A. J. Morris and four other directors of Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, to pay stockholders $400,000 they had made in a side-deal (TIME, Nov. 30, 1936). Last week the Appellate Division unanimously reversed Judge Pecora, found "no dereliction of duty...