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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interview in Chungking, China's gentle Premier Dr. H. H. Kung asked the U. S. some pertinent if rhetorical questions: "Why should Japan build a great Navy if her territorial ambitions are confined to China? Why should they have established in the United States, Panama and elsewhere in the Americas an espionage system from coast to coast? Why, also, should Japanese fishing fleets congregate in such numbers off the Pacific Coast of the U. S. and why should Japanese fishermen ply their craft in every bay and inlet of the Hawaiian Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Straight from the Mouth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...prefer unjust peace to a long war, for in all history I don't know any just peace treaty anyhow. The injustice of Versailles is insignificant when compared with the losses sustained by all nations during the World War." Thus spoke Pitirim Alexandrovich Sorokin, professor of Sociology, in an interview yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorokin Says He Prefers an Unjust Peace to Long Lasting European War | 10/28/1939 | See Source »

Back in Texas, Elijah William Cunningham went to work as a reporter for the Dallas News, at the same time coached Southern Methodist University's football team. One of his jobs as a reporter was to interview Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Bill, married only a few days, took his bride along to impress her. But Stefansson was irritable. Said he: "If you are any kind of reporter you won't need to take notes." Thereupon he tore through a staccato monologue, dismissed his interviewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ill-tempered Clavichord | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Hopping mad, Bill Cunningham went back to the office to write a blistering story about Stefansson. On the way, his wife handed him some sheets of paper. It was the interview, taken down in shorthand behind the explorer's back. Bill had not known his wife could take shorthand, because he had never met her (except for a few minutes before a football game) until the day they were married. He had called her by long-distance telephone at her home in Attleboro, Mass., to transact some other business, ended by asking her to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ill-tempered Clavichord | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Believe it or not, the above quotes are from an interview given Michael Mok of the New York Evening Post by clarinetist Artic Shaw...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

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