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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the negotiators tried to twist words into phrases that could cover such antithetical views, the Japanese Army made things hotter for the British in China by organizing "spontaneous" hostile demonstrations. Neither the Japanese Government, which is afraid of losing its remaining power to Army extremists, nor the British, who are playing for time, wanted to break off the Tokyo conversations. Finally Sir Robert and Foreign Minister Arita agreed to a vague compromise formula: "His Majesty's Government . . . recognize the actual situation in China, where hostilities on a large scale are in progress. . . . The Japanese forces in China have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN -GREAT BRITAIN: Formula | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...given by Mr. Mayer for the Buchmanites. Henry Ford sent a message, publicly endorsing Dr. Buchman and his work by name. Herbert Hoover furnished some words about the world's troubles, which headline writers construed as praise for MRA; thereupon Mr. Hoover let it be known that he neither endorsed MRA nor denied endorsing it. Read again was the message President Roosevelt sent a recent MRA meeting in Washington. Thirty-three U. S. Governors let their names be used as subscribing to a statement that "Moral Re-Armament is our most urgent need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MRA in Hollywood | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...didn't know it meant so much to him. You know he has a certain standard to maintain here and now he has been completely ruined. He is not like the Americans. He can trace his ancestry back for 600 years. He has never been a slave and neither have any of his people. He is of Royal blood and this sort of gossip touches his family. I don't know whether I will ever marry him now. It hurts me very much for him to be socially ruined. I love him more than I ever dreamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Sad Tale | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...signing another, he would rejoin Riskin in the fall as Frank Capra Productions, Inc. Since high-powered Screenwriters Gene Towne and Graham Baker have also set up shop for themselves this year (TIME, May 29), Hollywood saw a Trend. Though the Capra-Riskin production plans remained their secret, neither they nor anyone else thought they would have much trouble in financing as many pictures as they wanted to make, which will probably not be very many. "A good writer should be able to do two good pictures a year," Writer Riskin once remarked. "Unfortunately, we all do several more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Columbia's Gems | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...deal was ancient financial history in 1936 when stockholders sued, claiming that the profit rightfully belonged to the company, not the directors in the syndicate. The members of the syndicate replied that the corporation neither wanted the stock nor was in a position to buy it and that the syndicate bought it to protect the corporation from Mr. Markle. Nonetheless, bushy-haired Justice Ferdinand Pecora returned a thumping judgment against Morris & friends for $443,202, including interest. Last week, Justice Pecora's judgment having been reversed on the first appeal, New York's Court of Appeals (last resort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nothing Wrongful | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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