Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect this turned Japan's technical divorcement from the League last week into a day for proclaiming what Japanese jingos call "our Monroe Doctrine for Eastern Asia"-the doctrine that Japan preponderates in its sphere as does the United States...
...grievance is that "Zionists have been buying up the land without restriction." The complaint is rather a strange one: why should there be restrictions on voluntary land-transactions in a country which has not adopted communism? But Great Britain has given up its traditions of individual liberty in the sphere of property rights, and has placed many a restriction in the way of land purchase by Jews (See Reports of H. M.'s Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine, and Trans-Jordan...
Pride of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek are the series of great airports which his Nationalist Government is building across north and central China. A new one was nearing completion last week at Haichow, 250 miles north of Shanghai and at the very edge of the Japanese sphere of influence. Out to see the new airport went a trainload of tourists, among whom were 18 toothy, smiling little Japanese in civilian clothes. Sentries met them at the wire gates, guides were assigned to show them around. Hissing polite appreciation, the Japanese went everywhere, promptly unloaded a battery of cameras and began...
...single word. . . . Is it conceivable that neither the examining magistrate nor the prosecutor became at all interested? . . Was the letter written and transmitted? Was a reply received? To these unavoidable questions we get no answer. The Gay-pay-oo could not permit the prosecutor any indiscretion within that sphere over which it has been compelled to draw a curtain of silence...
Claudette Colbert steps outside her usual sphere to take the part of the mother in Fanny Hurst's "Imitation of Life," which fortunately quite exceeds the intricacies of real living. Admirers of la belle Claudette will find her somewhat lacking in a display of those things for which they formerly admired her but they will see an interesting study of a stolen film. Only a small part of the interest in the involved plot is centered on the leading lady while all the minor characters except Jessie, the daughter, take every scene in which they appear. Only when the world...