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In an interview in Chungking, China's gentle Premier Dr. H. H. Kung asked the U. S. some pertinent if rhetorical questions: "Why should Japan build a great Navy if her territorial ambitions are confined to China? Why should they have established in the United States, Panama and elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Straight from the Mouth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Dr. Dewey now spends his summers in Nova Scotia, his winters in a Manhattan apartment with his youngest daughter. His favorite hobby is solving acrostic puzzles with his family. He also likes to read detective stories, fancies himself as a farmer. But John Dewey spends most of his time thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dewey at 80 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

In short, sharply chiseled chapters, some of which are little essays on autocracy, some of which are so rhetorical that they scan even in translation, The Age of the Fish warns that the world is floating into cold times in which "the souls of men, my friend, will become as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold Times Are Coming | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

"Have you heard about Cynthia's wedding?" It was a rhetorical question. "Well, you know in the beginning they were going to be married during the first week of June, but Mr. Buttress, that's John's father, has to go back to Harvard for his twenty-fifth reunion then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

Jeremiah (by Stefan Zweig; produced by The Theatre Guild). Biblical narratives have a way of being made into "plays" and coming out Biblical narratives. Jeremiah illustrates the jinx. When Zweig wrote it, as an Austrian pacifist in 1916, Jeremiah's thundering against Israel's war of conquest had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

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