Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your information, I enclose the most recent photo of General Sung Cheh-yuan which I took yesterday at the general's review of his troops. Also for your information-a number of people who know something about North China and its personages have transferred the "goatbeard" of your General Sung Cheh-yuan (TIME, Dec. 9) to the chin of your Foreign News editor. . . . NORMAN T. H. SOONG...
...future depends upon confidence. In 1935 our gold reserves declined from 82 billions of francs to 66 billions of francs but this did not result from intrinsic weakness of the franc. It resulted from speculative at tacks, investment of capital abroad - as when our citizens seized upon the recent rise in Wall Street securities to invest - and hoarding. All these three forces we are in a strong position to combat...
Last week in London a record was claimed for a recent find in Egypt, 86 pages of Epistles of St. Paul which, written in the 3rd Century, appears to be the oldest New Testament text of any length. Collector Beatty bought 56 pages, the University of Michigan the remainder...
Raising an issue of vital importance to the whole nation, the recent controversy between the Honorable Henry P. Fletcher, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and William S. Paley, President of the Columbia Broadcasting System, is nowhere nearer solution than it was two months ago at the outbreak of hostilites. The part that the great broadcasting networks are to play in presenting political issues to the voting public of America, the editorial power such organizations are to have, the source and limitations of that power, are questions which must be settled now, and settled in such fashion that future controversies...
Boron chloride, a new abrasive and second only to the diamond in hardness, is on exhibit. Samples of whiskey are present which have been prematurely aged by the catalytic hydrogenation of compounds responsible for "greenness." A recent development of Grinnoll Jones, professor of Chemistry, bearing the trade name "Pamilla Cloth" is included. It is used as a wrapper for silverware--the silver hydroxide it contains prevents tarnishing...