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When a mighty, sickening temblor rocked the northeast coast of Honshu, main island of the Japanese Empire, experienced seacoast folk shouted not "Jishin!" (earthquake) but "O Tsunami!" (big tidal wave) and streaked for the hills last week...
Sure enough the quake produced a tidal wave. Thanks to the fleetness with which the Japanese ran and climbed, the wall of water drowned only 1,535, injured only 338, left only 948 missing. A grand total of 2,963 houses & buildings were swept away, 6,343 were inundated, 1,279 flimsy structures collapsed. As usual fire broke out, burned up 211 houses & buildings while sirens screeched, power lines snapped and a blizzard whipped the homeless...
With a great swearing of oaths, blaring of bands and outpouring of orations, a fresh crop of governors last week began taking office throughout the Nation. Last year 35 states held gubernatorial elections through which ran the same Democratic tidal wave that swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the White House. In January, prime month for state inaugurals, voters repaired to their capitols to hear and see the men on whom they had staked their hopes of a change for the better. They beheld new faces not nearly so handsome as the campaign posters, heard voices containing much less self-assurance...
...Moon passes over the Atlantic the distance between London and Manhattan stretches by 63 ft., possibly the result of tidal pull.-Alfred Lee Loomis (Manhattan), Professor Harlan True Stetson (Ohio Wesleyan...
...national election each week. I note that some people have accused you of being pro-Roosevelt, etc. What do they want you to do? Publish a garbled account of the trend of the times, and soft-pedal the fact that the country is on a great Democratic tidal wave? If you did that very thing you would destroy the very thing that makes TIME the one magazine that so many of us depend on for a real account of what has happened. A very common remark these days is, Let's wait and see what TIME...