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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldier's wife's first duty is to relieve her husband of all worries while he is fighting" continued General Itagaki, nailing with Oriental candor the issue of marital fidelity which arises in every war. He concluded: "We cannot tell how long it will take to restore peace because the operations must continue until General Chiang Kai-shek falls and his Communist co-supporters are ousted. Even if he said he had abandoned pro-Communistic and anti-Japanese policies we would mistrust that declaration while he retained any authority. He might change his mind again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Just Started | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

Bluenose (slang term for a Nova Scotian) was defending the International Fishermen's Trophy for the fourth time under her skipper, Captain Angus Walters, a peppery old salt. The challenger, Gertrude L. Thebaud (named after the wife of a Gloucester summer resident who put up most of the $78,000 necessary to build her eight years ago), was making her second attempt to regain the trophy-with Captain Ben Pine at the wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fishermen's Finale | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...canned salmon, a flask of water. Diving down again, he found the ship's cat, Fluffy, on a shelf above water level in the cabin, brought her up in a sea bag, along with blankets, the ship's chronometer, a sextant, a flashlight, a picture of his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Code of the Sea | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...Edward Mellanby, 54-year-old secretary of Britain's Medical Research Council, is famed for his wit, his wife Lady May (Britain's outstanding authority on tooth decay) and his work on nutrition and pneumonia. In The Lancet last week, Sir Edward discussed "The State and Medical Research," told of the "first recorded experiment in medical science by a king himself," an experiment remarkably similar in technique to work done by scientists on guinea pigs today. Said Sir Edward: "Frederick the Second. Emperor of the Romans, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, known as Stupor Mundi, the Wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Classic Experiment | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...sacrament of baptism in infancy, that of confirmation in youth, those of the Eucharist and penance frequently thereafter. Before serving in the World War Andre Durupt received the sacrament of matrimony. During the War he was so badly wounded that he was given extreme unction. After the War his wife died; he studied for the priesthood, took the sacrament of holy orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Seven Sacraments | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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