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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tokyo and at Berlin. Russia fears she is going to feel German and Japanese pincers pricking the Soviet union on both flanks. That ink is newly dry on a Japanese-German secret treaty of military alliance is charged in resounding Moscow speeches by owlish Soviet Premier Molotov and that popular eagle of the Red Army, Defense Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov. Since the Soviet Secret Service is definitely keen, Dictator Joseph Stalin anticipated months ago that the Japanese, feeling Germany to be with them, would in time pass from hesitant encroachment and frontier incidents to such undeclared war as came last week...
...secret treaty of military alliance has been signed with Germany, these swashbucklers were set to risk a great war between Japan and Russia. This week Japanese vote in a general election for a new Diet or Lower House, but Tokyo wiseacres agreed last week that no matter how the popular vote distributes itself among Japan's civilian political parties, the Fighting Service chiefs must remain dominant for some time to come. Incredible Pittman- That, quite apart from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America might well take a rougher line with Japan was the loud...
...Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, Springfield, Mass., named James A. Naismith divided his class of 18 into two sides, gave them an old soccer ball, had them toss it through two bottomless peach baskets hung on the wall. That was the beginning of what is now the most popular winter game in the U. S. Last year, Olympic officials discovered that basketball is played by 18,000,000 addicts almost the world around, therefore added it to the program at Berlin next summer...
Springfield, three years in Denver, Colo., he went to University of Kansas as athletic director. After going there, he in vented three more games: war-tug, hilo, vreille (popular only among Kansas co eds). In 1907 Dr. Naismith was replaced as Kansas basketball coach. Since then, his principal contact with the game has been sitting in the front row to watch Kan sas teams, which have won four Big Six Conference championships. Last autumn Dr. Forrest C. Allen, University of Kansas' basketball coach, who makes $4,000 to Dr. Naismith's $3,000, promoted the idea of sending...
Last week Detroit and the State of Michigan turned St. Valentine's Day into "Eddie Guest Day." The occasion roughly commemorated Edgar Albert Guest's 54 years of life, his 40 years in newspaper work, his 25 years of writing popular verse. Seven hundred Detroiters jammed into the Statler Hotel for a testimonial dinner. A troupe of radio actors broadcast dramatized episodes of Rhymester Guest's life. And Motormaker Henry Ford's mouthpiece, William J. Cameron, spoke for thousands of Guest addicts in & out of Michigan when he declared...