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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, what the Japanese Army had envisaged as a cheap, comparatively easy three-month romp through the northern provinces had dragged out to a year of costly, still undeclared war, with the end nowhere in sight. Japan has overrun an area twice as large as France and Germany (see map, p. 15), has captured eight provincial capitals, and has extended her campaign through twelve provinces of North and Central China. All of China's main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Anniversary | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...street. Later a prostitute was arraigned. As Chief Magistrate Sir Rollo Graham-Campbell was hearing evidence on this case, a tall, 42-year-old Danish Count, wearing a blue serge suit, carrying a brief case, strode in. Next entered a slender blonde young woman, formerly an American citizen, twice-married, once-divorced. The flashily dressed streetwalker bounced out of court. Shaggy-browed Sir Patrick Hastings, noted British barrister, rose, be to outline the case, that of Countess Barbara Haugwitz-Reventlow, née Bar Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth 5?-&-10? fortune, against her husband, Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Insult | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific's Olympian dived through a trestle into Custer Creek during a cloudburst, killing and drowning 47. Following week the Olympian ran through orders near Roundup, hit a trainload of CCC boys head on, killed one. Then, one morning last week, disaster struck twice again on Montana's tortuous stretches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bad Land | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...scorn. Last year, when he demanded that the Government suppress sitdown strikes, Massachusetts Labor sharply reminded him of Harvard's underpaid scrubwomen. Latest scorching for white-mustached old Dr. Lowell was the revocation last year of his automobile driving license, after he had once flunked a test, twice crashed into other motorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lowell's Lessons | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Radiotype looks like an ordinary typewriter, can be operated by any typist, can handle invoices, statements, inventories, any size paper, complicated or simple forms. More versatile than teletype, radiotype is also twice as fast, can transmit and type 120 words a minute. Stocky, blond Inventor Lemmon is working with Assistant Engineer Clyde Fitch on attachments to make radiotype do and transmit the work of adding machines, cash registers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Quicker Fox | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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