Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amok, murdered Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi, seized the Metropolitan Police building (TIME, March 9, 1936 et seq.). Afterwards 15 young Japanese officers were executed but Colonel Hashimoto, having political influence, was merely cashiered. This year Japan's need of trained officers in China put him back in uniform, and it would be strictly in character for Colonel Hashimoto and his fanatical clique to think the best thing they could do for Japan would be to embroil her in war with the U. S. and other "Foreign Dogs...
Negotiations for an initial contract first went on the rocks last October, and the Trainmen issued a strike order. However, the negotiators resumed their seats, the union asking for a uniform contract covering all eight lines involved, the company holding out for wage differentials between the various lines. The unions also wanted a closed shop and wages for drivers boosted from around 3½? per mile to 5?, with a guarantee of 200 miles per day ($11). Last week the company flatly and finally turned down the demands, and the drivers climbed...
...York Americans: a hockey game against the World Champion Detroit Red Wings, 3-to-1; in which 40-year-old Ivan ("Ching") Johnson, recently given his unconditional release after eleven years as star defenseman of the New York Rangers, made his debut in an American uniform, showed flashes of his old, brutal form, thrilled a cheering crowd of 12,000; in Manhattan's Madison Square garden...
...stock in trade. Ebb Tide provides several "firsts": It is Technicolor's first sea story; Viennese Oscar Homolka's first Hollywood vehicle; blonde Frances Farmer's first appearance in a sarong. Navy Blue and Gold (Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer). "As long as you wear the navy uniform," says old grad Lionel Barrymore to the football squad in Navy Blue and Gold, "nobody cares greatly whether you win or lose. But Navy cares greatly how you play the game." How they play the game in this film, under the hipper-dipper cinema coaching of Hollywood Director Sam Wood...
...personality and his stature as a composer. Author Thompson, music critic of the New York Sun, paints an intimate picture. Debussy not only resembled a cat; he lived with live cats and collected porcelain cats. His living cats were always grey angoras, always named Line. His women were less uniform. To him the four most important were Mme Vasnier, wife of an aging friend, who brought him from adolescence to manhood; green-eyed Gabrielle Dupont, who lived with him while he worked on his opera, Pelleas et Melisande; Rosalie Texier (Wife No. 1), who had an unpleasant voice which finally...