Word: outer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nations flayed by prominent Congress speakers were: the U. S., for failing to grant Bolsheviks a whopping loan; Japan, for invading Inner Mongolia and clashing even with Red Outer Mongolia (see p. 22); Germany, for continuing to balk France and Russia in their efforts to get that power to sign the Eastern Locarno Pact (TIME, July...
Contemptuously the Foreign Minister deigned no reply. His pacifist declaration had been made for foreign consumption, had nothing to do with the steady onrush of Japan's war machine which was crashing Inner and Outer Mongolia last week. Greatest glory of the week went to a Japanese Col. Wada, who captured a Lamaist temple on the Outer Mongolian border...
...personal tour through Northern China was to buy with elaborate bribes the loyalty of Mongolian princes in Chahar. Chahar would be important to Japan not only as a future base for the invasion of Northern China, but also as a prime point on the strategic caravan route to outer Mongolia and Russia. The brief & bloody capture of this little corner of disputed territory last week was an obvious Japanese threat to Mongol chieftains to mind their manners. Nanking's complaisance was a fair admission that China's Nationalist Government was resigned to the eventual loss of Chahar, probably...
...Font's Major K. K. V. Casey admitted that in 1925 40 tons of TNT shipped by du Pont to China left the U. S. in double containers, the outer marked "Explosives" according to U. S. Law. At sea, however, the outer containers were removed and the shipment eventually reached a war lord in Manchuria. "We had one put over on us," said Mr. Casey...
...prettily and by way of contrast, Mitzi Mayfair contributes a good bit of syncopated stepping with the aid of Jack Whiting, to whom the ballads of the show are entrusted. Everett Marshall's excellent baritone deserved better means of expression than the usual tear-jerker about the down-and-outer who stresses the point that his dejected head once was encased in an Uncle Sam tin hat and won't somebody please give him a bit of coin. The chorus is quite handsome and gyrates with sufficient abandon. The costumes and sets are striking. It's all good...