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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in a way memorable of the events which led to the World War, one European nation abruptly broke diplomatic relations with another, went so far as to shut off inter-nation telephone communication. Foreign correspondents and diplomats gasped. It was an action such as is seldom taken unless war is imminent, and it occurred because a small Czechoslovak factory refused to fill a commercial order for the Government of Portugal. Although Premier Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, who ordered his Minister José da Costa Carneiro to leave Prague is a dictator and therefore unaccountable...
Weak Yen. Fortnight ago, Japanese Government bonds were quoted. at 90. Last week they had dropped to 76 and the yen was in a precarious position. Pessimists insisted that Japan had funds for only three months of warfare, must collapse financially after that period. Realists pointed that bankruptcy seldom stops wars, but pointed out too that China's finances, almost as precarious, have been in general improving as Japan's declined. Busily touring Europe recently, drumming up loans has been rotund Dr. H. H. Kung, China's Minister of Finance. Loans he got, both in Switzerland...
Among the famous questions raised and seldom settled by letter-writers in the Times have been : Are there any brains in the British Army? Why isn't British ice cream any better (this was headed "Strawberry or Vanilla?")? Who is the oldest Etonian? What is the derivation of the phrase "cocking the snook" (thumbing the nose...
...smokers took a few sample puffs, grimaced, went back to the British brand. When another manufacturer duplicated a favorite British blend exactly, designed a beautiful packet, priced it lower, the sales were still nil. Chinese customers, guided by the Confucian maxim that "fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue," merely figured the more elegant the packet, the cheaper the price, the shoddier the quality. Drugs, another leading gold mine for western civilization's advertisers, were an even bigger flop than cigarets. "The total consumption of foreign pills," says Crow, "probably does not average much...
Author Scott explains that he wrote Algebra for Parents because "ordinary school books are written to be used under a teacher. If a parent is moved to bone up on the subject, he is repelled by the usual textbook . . . seldom more than a skeleton of instruction and a mass of exercises." Although professional textbook writers may accuse Author Scott of oversimplification-trigonometry is covered in 17 pages-he tested his explanations by solving correctly all the College Board algebra examinations from 1916 to 1931. Says Lawyer Scott: "Teaching is a profession and everyone magnifies his own profession...