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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shanghai was to Tokyo last week only another Tientsin, on a much grander and more glorious scale (see p. 21). Japan has many objectives, but a very big one is to scare the biggest Chinese city, Shanghai, into dropping the boycott of Japanese goods now general throughout China, and into buying Japanese goods. The big businessmen of Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe were under the strange but powerful impression last week that by employing Might in its crudest form the Japanese Empire can sell to China. After all, what was "The Opium War?" Chinese say it was a successful exhibition...
...flying pay at $3 per daylight hour, $5 per hour at night. The company (which enjoys no mail contracts) announced a cut in base pay to $150, flying pay to remain the same. According to the com-pany the pilots would average $360 per month under the new scale. According to the pilots-all members of the new union-it amounted to a reduction of nearly 50%. They refused, made counter demands for union recognition, reported for work one morning last week to find armed guards and company officials barring their way to the Century hangar. The officials handed them...
Typical products of an age that set a premium on immortality and fame are Pisanello's medallion portraits of the great folk at the courts of Ferrara, Mantua, and Milan. Although small in scale, through the accuracy of modelling and characterization, they partake of the qualities of monumental works of art. One is apt to remember the sharp profile of Paleologus in the fantastic dress of Byzantium, the appropriately gentle likeness of Cecilia Gonzaga, and the strangely fascinating head of Leonello d'Este. We may see side by side the first proofs in lead and the later casts in bronze...
...value as Indications of the prevailing sentiment than as practical measures. The real hope for disarmament at the present time appears to lie in the economic situation, not in speeches which are lost in the rear of the Oriental cannon. No nation can now afford the expense of large scale war construction. That fact may at least induce the Geneva Convention to extend the Washington agreement, and perhaps complete it by securing the adherence of France...
...collecting copy. All the clerical work is done by a permanent secretary. The main advantage to be gained is, of course, the ability to handle business affairs of more than minor importance with efficiency and accuracy. It is real business life, a good preparation for work with a large scale newspaper, an advertising concern, or almost any business house...