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...interference by a Chinese revenue cutter with a Japanese or Korean smuggler's craft "will be regarded as an act of piracy on the high seas, and will be treated accordingly."* Though China's face was thus slapped again & again by Japan, Generalissimo Chiang did not waver in his policy of always turning the Christian other cheek. He even had Chinese police beat up and jail hundreds of Chinese students when they demonstrated in Peiping, Shanghai and Tientsin against Japan. At Tokyo's behest, Nanking has dissolved scores of local offices of the Kuomintang, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chiang Dares | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

During the talk, a long distance call was put through by Prince Paul to Prague. At the other end of the wire Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes hotly insisted that Rumania and Yugoslavia, which with Czechoslovakia comprise the "Little Entente." should not waver in their traditional resistance to a Habsburg Restoration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LITTLE ENTENTE: Habsburg Warned | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...toward verifying the suspicion that Director Busby Berkeley's bizarre cinematic dance routines have lost all but academic interest. His masterpiece this time is a tableau in which a double row of white pianos, at which chorus girls sit waving their hands as though playing waltzes, waver, spin, undulate and finally assemble into a platform on which Gloria Stuart does a tap dance. Cinemaddicts who feel that this represents a perceptible improvement on Berkeley's shadow waltz in Gold Diggers of 1933 are likely also to enjoy the presentation of the best song in the picture, "Lullaby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...happens to be Statesman Churchill's son Randolph. He went yapping out to Waver tree, a suburb of Liverpool rated as "safely Conservative" and tried to knife the regular Conservative candidate in a by-election last week by standing for election himself as an "Independent Conservative." Dashing about Wavertree, Candidate Churchill brandished banners reading "DOWN WITH THE OLD CAUCUS!" in which Father Churchill was defeated and "NO SURRENDER IN INDIA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parasites, Mirth, Pup | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

Credit for the success of the band is due in a large degree to two men, to Franklin Anderson, director, orchestrator, and baton-waver extraordinary, and to director Guy Slade in whose nightmares must course new schemes for dotting an i amid endless streams of running bandsmen. To these men, and to the members of the band for the interest they have shown, and for the work they have expended, Harvard extends her thanks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "WINTERGREEN" | 11/24/1934 | See Source »

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