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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter of an American father and a Russian mother. For nearly 20 years she has been a slave, bought and sold among various Chinese families as necessity dictated. From Mukden, her presumable birthplace, where she was first placed in an orphanage, she has been carried over North and Central China to her present haven near the Burmese border. Undoubtedly, along with my own parents and all the population of unconquered China, she has endured the horrors of Japanese bombing raids. Ahead of her, even if China should win, is only anonymous drudgery; if taken by the Japanese she will fare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Next day, snaking through the grandest mountain scenery in North America, the King and Queen enjoyed another royal prerogative, that of riding in the cab of the lead locomotive of the train's snorting "triple-header." Ahead lay three days of full-dress dignity in Vancouver and Victoria, before the swing back to the East for their visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Isn't It Wonderful? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Regional Paleontology will be given by Edward A. Ackerman, instructor in Geography, in the second half year. Charles F. Brooks '11, professor of Meteorology will head a course in Paleontology of North America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR NEW CURSES INCLUDED IN GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

...sending Joseph P. Kennedy as his personal representative to the coronation of Pope Pius XII; 2) adjourning Congress at the death of Pius XI; 3) "the employment of any of the branches of our national defense in connection with religious services."* Three Southern Senators signed the protest: North Carolina's Bailey, Georgia's George, Kentucky's Logan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Indignation | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Atlantic. There the world's record 636-pounder was boated in 1935. Broadbill, fishing for which is most difficult (because its soft mouth is hard to hook and harder to keep hooked), and most expensive (because many fruitless attempts make boat hire costly), migrate as far north as Cape Breton, N. S., where a 601-pounder, a North American record,* was caught three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Seaboarders | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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