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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was more concise, accurate information on the subject in a comparatively short article than I have seen in any other popular publication...
BankA chief plank in the Popular Front's platform was reform of the Bank of France and suppression of the oligarchy of 200 families who own that institution's voting stock (TIME, May 18). After months of guessing as to what sort of reform bill would be introduced, pudgy Finance Minister Vincent Auriol brought forward last week a measure so stern and thoroughgoing as to leave French wiseacres blinking in astonishment...
...some 16 hours. Early next morning one short message came over the wire: ''There have been incidents. . . . The number of victims is not yet known." Something big was happening behind the silence and the heavily guarded Spanish frontiers. It was the climax to five months of Popular Front Government, of Socialist and Communist rioting, and of some 250 deaths by violence...
...master stroke had been to keep bargaining with the Southerners until after his Nationalist Central Executive Committee had met in Nanking. There last fortnight, with an appearance of democratic, parliamentary unanimity, they were forced by Chiang to outlaw the South's front man, General Chen Chi-tang, popular, slow-witted Big Boss of Canton. Meanwhile Chiang had found the weak link in Chen's army of 500,000 men-a subsidiary war lord in immediate command of Chen's shock troops of the First Kwangtung Army. This traitorous officer was coaxed to Nanking, appointed to Chen...
...Over last week on the Pacific was the eleventh running of the second most popular ocean yacht race in the world, the 2,300-mile sail from California to Honolulu. Surpassed in numbers only by the famed Bermuda races, the Honolulu event was inaugurated in the same year...