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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many people the death picture of Gerald Thompson [TIME, Oct. 28] is more than "distasteful." It leaves a horrible scar. We don't expect to be so hopelessly exposed to that sort of thing in TIME...
...Deal." Pretending that they were unmoved by the winging of Wang, the Nanking Government & satraps kept on with the motions of getting ready for the Kuomintang Congress last week. In 1931, they recalled, a Nanking mob with unbridled patriotism actually sacked the Chinese Foreign Office (TIME, Oct. 5, 1931) because the Government seemed pro-Japanese even then. Ever since it has seemed progressively more pro-Japanese...
...Winged. In Nanking the élite of China could reflect that, for every dollar they have accepted from Japanese, Russians and other "foreign devils," they have seldom returned 3 cents worth of satisfaction. In passing, the Nanking Government blandly revealed last week that on Oct. 20 a stupendous explosion of Generalissimo Chiang's munition dump in Kansu Province killed over 2,000 Chinese. Hundreds of families were buried amid the debris of their collapsed homes and wiped out by the explosion was the military hospital in which wounded might have been treated. Gravely wounded lay German Catholic Missionary Bishop...
...that goes, directly or indirectly, to many football players at most U. S. colleges. When Tree-Surgeon Governor Davey of Ohio charged that 13 members of the State University football squad had government jobs, Ohio State officials were surprised only by the Governor's indignation (TIME, Oct. 21). Last week Ohio State undergraduates threatened to throw fruit at Governor Davey if he attended the Notre Dame game...
...Portland last autumn with his wife and small daughter, solemnly sworn to become no stuffed shirt. Students made his acquaintance during the freshman-sophomore tug of war when the victorious sophomores discovered that one of the "freshmen" they had been dragging through the mud was new President Keezer (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934). Subsequently "Prex Dex" attracted even more attention by appearing in bright red duck pants. In the winter he could be seen carrying an armful of wood to heat a cold conference room. In the spring he played tennis and fished with his students, shocked bookworms when he inaugurated...