Word: sino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Costliest stories, according to UP (listed in order of expense): Sino-Japanese, election, Lindbergh kidnapping, Massie trial, Olympic Games, War Debts...
Because several news stories of the year loomed so large, the lists were more alike than usual. All three services named the Bonus Army's invasion of Washington, the Democratic landslide, the Sino-Japanese struggle (particularly the battle of Shang-hai), the collapse of the Insull and Kreuger properties, the Massie case in Honolulu...
...Shanghai, terrorist societies kept the mail boxes of Chinese judges filled with anonymous letters threatening the most painful forms of mayhem to any who should impose sentence on a boycotter. Department stores were picketed, Japanese shops were bombed. In Nanking the Legislative Council repudiated the Sino-Japanese treaty of May 5. Anti-Japanese boycotters announced frankly that they would inspect all shipments of goods at the rail terminals and confiscate all Japanese goods...
...Correspondent (Columbia). If the journalist in this picture wore a patch on his eye instead of a sling on his arm, Hearst-Reporter Floyd Gibbons might have good grounds for a libel suit. Correspondent Franklin Bennett (Ralph Graves) chatters rapidly into microphones while covering Sino-Japanese hostilities and has several even more unpleasant traits. He is a craven poseur who romanticizes his newsgathering exploits hoping that his public will consider him a hero. The antagonism between Ralph Graves and Jack Holt which has been maintained through several recent pictures is more bitter than usual in this one. Holt...
...dailies from the World War front, which were rushed into extras by the most conservative publishers and hawked about by excited newsboys. Balance against the "militant youngsters" the richly exclamatory dispatches from Floyd (Well boys and girls, what a war!) Gibbons from the battle-scarred Chapel in the late Sino-Japanese debacle...