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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctor on another grotesque spot. Once China demanded that the League act against Japanese aggression. Later China supported League action against Italy in Ethiopia. But China, on the other hand, gets much of its war materials from the Soviet Union. Despite China's desire to keep a clean record against aggression, it was unlikely that Dr. Koo would be able to cast a vote against Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Expulsion or Condemnation? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...life of a cinema star, an Earl's daughter, an Indian Raja. On sale in the U. S. last week was the latest U. S. edition of London's Picture Post (dated a fortnight later than the British edition), containing an English journalist's solemn pictorial record of the life of an average New Yorker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life of a New Yorker | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...prices in this field skyrocketed in the '203, it gave ever-suspicious private buyers a line on whether prices had been puffed up unduly. With collectors making most of the high bids, dealers were vindicated. Chunky, art-loving Walter P. Chrysler Jr. set a new U. S. auction record for Cézanne by bidding $27,500 for a sombre portrait of Mme Cézanne. An anonymous collector paid $19,000 for van Gogh's high-keyed portrait of Mile Ravoux, smeared on the canvas with a palette knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pioneer | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Just as at opening of opera or cinema, news photographers whanged away to the giddy glare of flash bulbs. They caught tycoonery (see cuts), failed only to re-record the serious things which the tycoons had come for. During their sessions they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: In Congress Assembled | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...elder J. (for John) Pierpont Morgan distrusted newspapermen, avoided "magazine men," and there is no record of his having high regard for any writers except the dead. Unlike the Rockefellers, the Morgans nave not gone in for personal pressagentry; neither have they unbosomed themselves to historians. Consequently, the chief books on the elder Morgan, able in other respects, are either obscure or theatrical on the interesting question of how Morgan felt about being Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pip's Portrait | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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