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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most Chinese, the oral cavity of the late Marshal Wu Pei-fu, poet, puppet-reject, warlord extraordinary, was a wonder. It contained the tongue of a fox, and many teeth of gold. When he died last week, the cause was announced by the Japanese as a bad dental abscess; but two days later Peking heard a story which made it sound more like bad judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buddha's Verdict | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...lively squabbles is the new Assembly. Its Opposition majority was already claiming last week that the Assembly is sovereign and ought to supplant Congress. The Government minority cracked back that the Assembly has no authority to do more than draft a new Constitution, which Cuban voters may accept or reject. With such prime ingredients for revolution brewing, the Cuban pot simmered this week close to a boil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Batista Backfire | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...showing us in the policies we are resisting where men get to when they reject the Christian belief in God as Creator and Judge. . . . Violence and terror come then to be regarded as the indispensable means of the maintenance and continuance of a society which puts its own political exaltation in place of the divine law. . . . But God is showing also that this idolatry of political power which we see in the enemy is a reaction from a more disguised but not less real idolatry of commercial and financial values that has deeply infected the democratic peoples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: What God Is Doing | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Finally, said he, Stalin's men became convinced that Britain and France were actually encouraging Poland to reject Red Army aid! And they were trying to sick Russia on Germany by pretending that Hitler threatened to annex the Ukraine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Arms & Art | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Reject power developed by Federal agencies like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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