Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fractious, irritated, harried man who sat at the same cluttered desk last summer. A remarkable change has come over the President: once again he is relaxed, confident, charming. Gone is his captious attitude to the U. S. press. Old Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington columnists, noted the change a month ago, hopefully analyzed the President's bubbly jocularity as a signal he has decided not to run again...
Similar dispatches had previously trickled into similar oblivion: month ago, for instance, one described a guerrilla action near Great Wutai Shan, the sacred Buddhist mountain in Shansi-when Chinese caught an unsuspecting Japanese brigade and killed a full third of the force...
...Several months ago the Japanese Army gave a general named Kawamoto the sole job of persuading Marshal Wu to play puppet. Learning that the good Marshal was a great student of Buddhist classics, Major General Kawamoto sought to ingratiate himself by studying Buddhism as Wu's disciple. The Marshal gladly expounded the Master's life, the Buddhist Canon, the four Truths. One day last month, thinking he had won the Marshal's heart, General Kawamoto suddenly switched the subject from pulpiteering to puppeteering. Would Wu Pei-fu play? "No!" thundered the Marshal...
...From the first of this month our new line of fortifications seems to have removed any hope the enemy may have entertained either of crossing or flanking the Maginot Line...
...been speeded by instituting "slow" and "fast" convoys, so that wallowing tramps do not hold up the parade.* He pointed out that while losses of British merchant shipping declined in October to half the tonnage lost in September, and again in November to two-thirds of October, neutrals last month lost four times what they lost in September. This, he said, "is indeed a strange kind of warfare for the German Navy to engage in. When driven off the shipping of their declared enemy, they console themselves by running amuck among the shipping of neutral nations. This fact should encourage...