Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese advance on land toward Shantung had approached so near its capital, Tsinan, last week that prosperous Chinese families were fleeing with their household goods by rail to the port of Tsingtao. Farther inland General Yen Hsi-shan, famed "Model Governor" of Shansi Province, was reported to have ordered the execution of his subordinate General Li Fu-ying, Commander of the 61st Chinese National Division, for abandoning Tatungfu to the Japanese without a fight after being ordered to hold it at all costs. Under terrific Japanese bombing was Governor Yen's capital Taiyuan. In Suiyuan Province still farther inland...
...winter in the high mountains of Sierra Nevada put none other than bombastic Rightist "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano off the air last week and into action for the first time in months. Neutral observers hailed this as prelude to a long delayed advance along the seacoast toward Almeria...
Fascist Triumvirate. In Japan, Germany and Italy prompt and angry reactions to the Chicago speech suggested that the President had gone a long way toward stinging these mutually friendly Fascist powers into a hard triumvirate. Probably prematurely, Japan's news agency Domei announced that at a call by the Italian Ambassador upon Japan's Foreign Office assurances were given of "Italy's sympathy and support in Japan's 'self-defense' campaign in China...
Name. The Missionary District of the Philippines has urged the General Convention that the word "Protestant" be deleted from the Church's name, a proposal perennially made by high churchmen as a means toward unity with Catholic sects...
...Friendly toward the A. S. P. C. A. and the American Humane Association, although the friendship is not entirely reciprocated, are numerous national and local antivivisectionist societies which devote their energies to attacking scientists who use animals for experiments. To them antitoxins and serums produced by infecting animals with disease are anathema. Most prolific distributor of antivivisectionist literature is the Vivisection Investigation League, headed by 81-year-old Sue M. Farrell, who learned her humanitarianism direct from agnostic Robert Ingersoll; anti-vivisectionists also include such unusual celebrities as Fannie Hurst, George Arliss, Ellen Glasgow, Mahatma Gandhi. Irene Castle McLaughlin...