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Even if his radio contract is not for a full year (they are generally signed with 13-week cancellation clauses) teh arithmetic is still pretty obvious. Mr Nichols may not know that an income of 1,500 per year is considered pretty fancy stuff by most of what he calls "the American public" and the fact that they consider him and his associates "a wealthy group" can scarcely be called laboring under a delusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...player is heard to say, "You've got me dormie" (as many holes down as holes to play) when in fact his opponent is dormie. But he may say, "I am dormie down" (vulgarism). Origin of the word is obscure, but some authorities think it may spring from teh French dormir (to sleep, to be stagnant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

...final offer" every few months. Last week, with tempers erupting on both sides, a break in negotiations came as the dummy third party, Manchukuo's Vice Foreign Minister Chuichi Ohashi, who is a Japanese, packed his bags and left Tokyo for Hsinking, the capital of Puppet Emperor Kang Teh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Wild East Destruction | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

Meanwhile Manchukuan troops under Japanese officers swooped out along the lines of C. E. R., arresting 46 station agents and engineers. They were taken to Harbin and jailed on the pretext that a plot had been discovered to assassinate hollow-eyed Emperor Kang Teh. According to the Japanese, bandit raids on C. E. R. have been financed by Soviet agents from the Red Army base at Khabarovsk. Finally last week the Imperial Japanese Army propaganda bureau in Tokyo issued what Russians interpreted as a threat that Japan means eventually to seize C. E. R. without paying Moscow so much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Wild East Destruction | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...Emperor Rang Teh (Henry Pu-Yi) of _ Manchukuo. Manhattan's Painter-Philosopher-Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich found a new Head of State upon whom to bestow the Roerich Museum's insignia, first class. Reason: Manchukuo's contribution to world culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 9, 1934 | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

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