Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oregon than it was in Washington. Because many an Oregon Democrat, including popular ex-Townsendite Willis Mahoney who almost beat Leader McNary in the 1936 elections, was already primping for Fred Steiwer's seat, Democratic Governor Charles H. Martin found the prospect of picking one for an eleven-month recess appointment highly perplexing. The Governor had to step carefully since he is up for re-election himself this year, on the outs with Oregon's left-wing Democracy which has never forgotten that he registered Republican before he retired from the Army as a major general...
...Nanking, where outrages by Japanese soldiers had continued for over a month, Third Secretary Allison and Charles Riggs of Nanking University, a U. S. citizen, went out last week with a Chinese woman. Their object was to try to identify Japanese soldiers whom she accused of having raped her thrice. Since Japanese soldiers had taken the woman from the agricultural implement shop of Nanking University, Mr. Riggs had applied to Third Secretary Allison for help...
...over a month, enough shiny brass blank cartridges for a 101-gun salute have been piled by the saluting batteries of every Dutch army post from Amsterdam to Bali. They were to signal that Crown Princess Juliana had given the House of Orange its first male heir in generations. Last week the batteries finally boomed out but the Government saved 50 shells from each, for like her mother and grandmother before her, Crown Princess Juliana's first baby was a 51-gun, blue-eyed, fair-haired girl...
Last week President Enriquez tackled Recession. Agreeing with his U. S. colleague, President Roosevelt, that higher, not lower, wages are needed (see p. 7), he decreed that private concerns must give raises of 15% for all employes earning less than 300 sucres ($24) per month, 10% to all earning 300 to 500 sucres. In the streets of Quito cheering, barefoot peasants wildly waved the "Panama" hats that are Ecuador's chief export manufacture...
Skiers will find their fill of tournaments during this month if they take in the many meets scheduled for almost every weekend. Chief event of this weekend in the annual University race open in all undergraduates. The race was originally set for January 9, but at that time the trails were too icy and so it was postponed. The race will be held on Saturday morning on the John Sherburn trail and Saturday afternoon on the Wildeat Trail...