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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observers report, however, that the Japanese have been slain four to one in their skirmishes with the Communists. Last week, after retreating from the Japanese for 16 months, leaving them sprawling toward the interior on all China's vital communication lines, Chiang publicly proclaimed a policy of large-scale guerrilla, hit-&-run attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Recapture Canton? | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...labor history." Chances of recognition of the U. A. W. by Henry Ford himself, last major holdout, Homer Martin would not discuss, but there was hope in his remark: "Nobody can do a better job of standardizing wages, hours and conditions than labor and industry cooperating on a national scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: With Ford's Help | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Said Dr. Edward S. Godfrey Jr., Commissioner of Health of New York State, who was elected 1939 president to succeed Abel Wolman: ". . . I would prefer a demonstration at the outset on a smaller scale than a State as a unit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Insurance | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Official acceptance by such a powerful health organization greatly strengthened the cause of the 110-odd small-scale health and hospital insurance groups which render services to more than 2,150,000 persons in the U. S. Harried by the hostile A. M. A., the small health groups have led a stormy existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Insurance | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...subtle modeling; Robert Cronbach's well-constructed little group Industry, and Warren Wheelock's exuberant figure of Walt Whitman, Salut an Monde (see cut), showed a new ease with planes and masses. Both made art critics wish for their enlargement to a less inti mate scale, and Wheelock's conception of Old Brooklynite Whitman stirred up local talk of monumentalizing the poet. In Manhattan, meanwhile. Justin Sturm, famed ex-Yale end ('21). ex-novelist. Westport, Conn.'s most popular sculptor, had an exhibition at the Karl Freund Galleries in which a wonderful lack of subconscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculpture for the Home | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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