Word: sino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debaters against Radcliffe on Monday, November 8, will be Phil G. Neal '40 and John A. Moore '38 with Cecil D. Elfenbein '38, as alternate. Harvard will have the affirmative there on the question, "Resolved: That the Neutrality Act should be immediately applied in the Sino-Japanese situation...
China. The first skull of Peking Man was found in 1929 in limestone caves at Choukoutien, 20 mi. from Peiping. This apish oldster is now generally conceded to be 1,000,000 years old, most ancient of known human fossils. Last summer, two days before Sino-Japanese fighting broke out in north China, a native workman employed by the Rockefeller-endowed diggers at Choukoutien turned up an upper jawbone of Peking Man, containing six teeth. This was the first upper jawbone, although several skulls and lower jawbones had been found before. The new find was got safely to a museum...
...York Times and the Washington Post published a long letter from Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Stimson. Mostly written before the President's speech, the letter ended with a paragraph written after it in which the statesman who guided U. S. policy in the last Sino-Japanese crisis in 1931-32 said he was "filled with hope" that "this act of leadership . . . will result in a new birth of American courage. . . ." The A. F. of L. urged its members to boycott Japanese goods...
...this enormous quantity of Oriental secret pledges, which the Occident regards as morally invalid because exacted under duress, that the Imperial Japanese Government last week issued the following urbane and reasoned 550 word official statement which would not deceive a Vermont woodchuck or a Georgia possum: "The present Sino-Japanese affair originated in an unwarranted attack by Chinese forces on Japanese garrison troops legitimately stationed in North China under rights clearly recognized by treaty...
Subjects for the trials, open only to upperclassmen, are two, "Resolved, That the incorporation of labor unions should be made compulsory," and "Resolved: That the United States should immediately apply the provisions of the Neutrality Act in the Sino-Japanese situation...