Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While violent jingos in the Japanese Army have been controlling the country for years and keeping it on the verge of bankruptcy, the Japanese Navy by & large has played conservative. Worried Japanese businessmen have generally been able to count on the navy's support in efforts to moderate army extravagance and truculence toward China. It was largely the quiet influence of the navy that saw proper punishment meted out to the hysterical young army officers who last year murdered famed Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi and captured Tokyo's magnificent Metropolitan Police Building (TIME, March...
Concentrating their forces last week in the Hongkew section, the Chinese drove down towards the river through the eastern extension of the International Settlement, until the Japanese warships opened fire to support their forces on land. Across the river on the right bank other Japanese troops tried to push back Chinese defending forces. Down from the Bund through this crossfire Americans were ferried to the mouth of the Whangpoo where ships picked them up to carry them to sea and safety. Meantime Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell placed the U. S. S. Augusta (see map) so as to give maximum protection...
...Olympic Games in Berlin (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.). For that stand Mr. Mahoney, if nominated, could count on receiving a large Jewish vote, possibly offsetting a similar vote that fiery little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia expects to receive for his anti-Hitlerism. And Mr. Mahoney could look for support from no less a personage than Franklin Roosevelt. Although President Roosevelt would probably like to see Administration enemies in Tammany thrown out forever, a formal denial was issued this week that he would take any hand in the mayoralty fight...
...Horthy, present Hungarian strong man, finally ended up in Moscow, became a Soviet citizen. Since then, he has built up a reputation as the world's "No. 1 Communist Germ Spreader." He has been accused of fomenting Red intrigues in Hungary, organizing the extreme left wing of Loyalist support in Spain, encouraging the growth of French Communism. Brazil got skitterish when he was reported trying to land at Rio de Janeiro. London had a scare last February, and once Denmark heard that the Communist bogeyman had crept in, disguised as a woman. When Moscow correspondents chased about to verify...
...years ago Negro Edward Lee Harris, who graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1927 and then taught chemistry at Texas' Negro Bishop College, returned to Pitt to study for his Ph.D. degree. The only way he could support his wife and two children was by working nights as a janitor in Pitt's State Hall. This spring obscure Janitor Harris was on the verge of his Ph.D. but did not know how to raise the $150 necessary for his final graduation fee. Then he was uncovered by newshawks and photographers searching for copy for the University...