Word: swords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first day of spring last week, Celestials read almost unanimous forecasts by China's most esteemed soothsayers that in 1937 will break "The Big War" between their country and Japan. What clinched this soothsaying in many Chinese minds last week was the appointment in Tokyo of a sword-handy Cabinet which proceeded to squelch the Japanese Diet. New Japanese Premier General Hayashi is known and hated throughout China as "The Border Crosser." Reason: in 1931 his troops were the first Japanese unit to cross the border from Korea, invading Chinese Manchuria, the larger part of which Japan...
...Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931, which was precipitated by Japan's Army leaders in defiance of the Cabinet's more conciliatory policy (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931 et seq.}, the spunky Military have successfully taken the offensive against Japan's civilian government. A renascence of sword-flourishing nationalism, fostered by the Army leaders has swept over Japan and has just been given still more punch by the Japanese-German agreement to fight Communism (TIME, Dec. 7) and by the even more recent Japanese-Italian accord in which Japan recognized Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia. Last...
...bold reform through Congress, Mr. Roosevelt characteristically asks for general authority and leaves the details to be worked out after Congress has handed over the sword; in other words, when it is too late to change anything. The President complains he is so overworked that he cannot adequately discharge his duties, while, in corroboration, the Brownlow Committee believes that the executive branch has grown up haphazardly. As an added enticement to Congress, it is thought that the whole idea saves the "most costly bureaucracy in history" thirty millions...
Author Dodge has based her romantic tale on a rubble foundation of fact. Claverhouse was a real character who, she thinks, has been handled over roughly by historians. As raw material for the cinema, Graham of Claverhouse is magnificent stuff. As a book, it is cloak-&-sword romance, Grade...
...long time before he forgets publishing in his Journal a hasty report by Drs. Cutting & Tainter of San Francisco that dinitrophenol was a useful drug for fat people to take to reduce weight speedily. Dinitrophenol does reduce weight. But as Dr. Fishbein warily editorialized, ". . . it is a two-edged sword with appalling possibilities for harm as well as for good." It was soon found that dinitrophenol also causes cataracts, scarcity of white blood cells, other disabilities (TIME, July...