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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spare the time from such other headaches as Ethiopia and Nazis, something should be done to help China by maintaining "the open door." China has received the heaviest solar-plexus wallop to her economy not from Japan but from the Pittman "Silver Bloc" in Congress, whose success in jacking up President Roosevelt to jack up the price of silver forced China's currency off the silver standard and dislocated the affairs of 400,000,000 Chinese. Last week's keynote caused the Japanese Foreign Office's tart spokesman Mr. Eiji Amau to snort: "Senator Pittman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN ASIA: Soviets v. Empires | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...have wondered what success is," replied beaming Eddie Guest. "This must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Guest Day | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...Chien adds naively, "There were 36 members present and the evening was in every way a great success. Professor Holcombe has just arrived and is giving a course of lectures at Central University; this is his second visit to China, and we are "tickled" to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Club of Nanking Is Organized Overnight by Unanimous Vote at Dinner | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

...achieving its purpose of relieving distress among the unemployed by giving them useful work of a public character to do, the Works Progress Administration is a definite success, stated Victor Ridder, director...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ridder Claims Boon-doggling Misused When Applied to WPA Administration | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

...final necessity for the success of the new Union, in Harvard at least, is that the leadership be entrusted permanently in reliable hands. One college generation of stupid leadership, one turnover of the "electorate", and the Union would fall into the sort of bad reputation which causes not healthy battle, but contemptuous neglect. An executive council largely made up of recognized student leaders, such as the Presidents of the Student Council and of Phillips Brooks House, would seem the best assurance that the organization would remain a parliament in which each individual and each group could fight without breaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLITICS HERE | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

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