Word: thin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly Hollywood's idea of a Chinese War Lord, burly in figure, greasy but intelligent of face, and with a thin mustache is General Han Fu-chu. Japanese have $100,000,000 invested in the Chinese province of which he is Governor, famed Shantung which juts out into the Yellow Sea facing Japan like the chin of a placid prize-fighter all ready to be clouted. Last week Japanese bombing planes continued to hurl at Tsinan. Han's capital, not death-dealing bombs but attractive offers encased in protective lengths of bamboo which rattled enticingly as they struck...
Katie Roche was a somewhat inauspicious choice for the opener. A thin play, its characterizations were so unclarified that even the expert Abbeyites seemed uncertain in them. Katie (Eileen Crowe), a young country girl born the wrong side of an aristocratic blanket, is an open-hearted flirt with illusions of grandeur. Rejecting Yokel Michael (Arthur Shields), she marries middleaged, blue-blooded Bachelor Stanislaus Gregg (F. J. McCormick). Crisis of this ill-matched marriage comes when Stanislaus finds artless Katie and naive Michael together, decides to transfer his wife permanently to the less tempting air of Dublin...
Between A. F. of L. and C. I.O. there still exists a thin, technical tie: the rebellious C. I. O. unions were suspended last year but they have not yet been expelled. Theoretically, the Great Schism could be healed if the C. I. O. unions would renounce the heresy of industrial unionism, submit to A. F. of L. rule. But dark hints of expulsion at next week's convention have been emanating from A. F. of L. leaders for months, and John L. Lewis last week summoned his C. I. O. leaders to meet in Atlantic City next fortnight...
...William M. Mann, entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, was made director of Washington's National Zoological Park. Dr. Mann is now 51, slight and dark. He also has thin hair and a holdover passion for ants. When he is not hunting ants in his spare hours, he is inclined to read anything from detective stories to incunabula. Fond also of the human animal, he loves parties and has been known to seat a distinguished scientist at dinner next to a circus freak. Director Mann's system of running his zoo is one of complete democracy. He insists...
...lows at the start of last week, speculators began to take an interest in U. S. Steel shares, which could be bought as low as $86 (year's high: $126.50). But the interest was mild-and very temporary. One morning blocks of Steel began to hit the thin market like a locomotive. All day in what swiftly became a 2,400,000 share avalanche, Steel showed the way downward, sagging to $80 on sales of only 83,600 shares, and the whole list tumbled along with it, setting another low mark for 1937. The Dow-Jones industrial averages were...