Word: zone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rdenas regime. Mexico's troubles over the oil expropriations and the resulting business collapse made this threat a likely possibility. So the President two months ago made an attempt to get General Cedillo away from his stronghold. He ordered the General to take over command of the military zone in Michoacán, Cárdenas' home state. General Cedillo, pleading illness, asked for a 45-day respite. Last week, his leave expired, the old General sent in his resignation from the army, announced that he would stay in Potosí, "quietly dedicated to agriculture...
...future of trade in China, Arnold said foreign trade has naturally been very hard hit, but conditions outside of the war zone are not as bad as in Shanghat. He said that one of the great puzzles that foreign observers have not yet solved is why Japan has been so destructive when the alleged purpose of the Japanese is to enlarge the market for their goods. "Japanese economic cooperation in China is based on domination. No matter what happens," he added, "the International Settlement will be considerably changed...
...girl brought in a basket litter on January 26 to the Mission hospital in Nanking. She said that her husband, a Chinese policeman, was seized by one of the Japanese execution squads on the same day that she was taken by Japanese soldiers from a hut in the Safety Zone to the South City. She was kept there for 38 days, she said, and attacked by Japanese soldiers from five to ten times each day. Upon examination by the Mission hospital, she was found to have contracted all three of the most common venereal diseases, a vaginal ulcer which finally...
Only once was Hindmarsh arrested by Japanese police in Shanghai, and that was outside the Soviet Embassy. In the war zone after the Panay incident, officers were instructed to pick up all Americans and apologize profusely for the bombing. "I got feeling a little guilty about the Panay after four or five arrests," Hindmarsh said...
...colored hair showed traces of dye, was arrested on the Europa with several letters she had been engaged to deliver, including one offering $1,000 for information about the Navy aircraft carriers Enterprise and Yorktown. Rumrich and Glaser had both been stationed during their Army service in the Canal Zone. Only document of importance which it was suggested they might have stolen was a copy of the secret codes of the Air Service, and Army authorities doubted that...