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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheer Force." The Federation of Indian chambers of commerce manifestoed last week to the viceroy: "There is no hope for collapse of the movement inaugurated more than two months ago by Mahatma Gandhi. . . . Two courses are open: either rule by sheer force or conciliate." The Federation recommended conciliation. But Baron Irwin from his viceregal lodge at Simla replied by issuing two new edicts: 1) making even "peaceful picketing" a crime; 2) giving those who exhort people not to pay taxes as hard punishment as those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Rule, Riots & Rain | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled the constabulary. Gory, clever, macabre, the tong wars of the early twentieth century had much the same effect on the U. S. public as Chicago's gang-battles; they turned harmless laundrymen into homicidal maniacs from sheer contagion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chinese Gangsters | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...Barograph, No Record. From the sheer cliffs bordering Point Loma, Calif, last week youthful Glider-Pilot Jack Barstow in a Bowlus sailplane was launched over the Pacific's edge. All that day and most of that night he soared over land and water, sometimes in cold wind and rain, conversing occasionally through the darkness with his friends below. When he landed, at the end of 15 hr. 13 min. he had shattered every existing endurance record for gliding* and yet, officially, had made no flight. Reason: he had taken along no barograph to register in ink, on a clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: May 12, 1930 | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

Gravely, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce went into session in Washington last week for its 18th annual meeting. Gravely because, first quarter over, Business has not started the long march from Depression to Prosperity, merely marks time, seems dazed at its narrow escape from a drop into the sheer chasm of Panic. Well might the businessmen assembled last week have remarked, together with the venerable Commercial & Financial Chronicle: "Verily, trade and business in this country have undergone great shrinkage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: In Washington | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

...Gluckliche Hand. Nerves were so atingle from the sheer physical force of Le Sacre that when the brief perform-ance was over many had almost forgotten Die Glückliche Hand, the curtain raiser. Yet like the Sacre the Schönberg piece can be counted as experimental music. It is pantomime opera, takes only a little more than 15 minutes to perform. Its subject is a simple one: a man in the pursuit of happiness is constantly thwarted by fate in the person of an elusive woman. Schönberg created only one singing character-the Man, harrowingly played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spring Rite | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

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