Word: seq
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Socialists had pooled their votes, their voices and their actions in Spain. This was in accordance with the new "united front policy" adopted last year in Moscow by the Comintern or United Communist Parties of the World, on the shrewd instruction of Joseph Stalin (TIME, Aug. 5 et seq.). Intimidation, not votes, was the force which actually opened Spain's jails last week and spewed out 30,000 "politicals...
...educators and was taught for 29 years not only by Dr. Minobe but by other professors supervised by the Ministry of Education. Suddenly the mystic fanaticism, the blind patriotism and the excruciating reverence for the symbolic EMPEROR, in whom Japanese really worship Japan, exploded (TIME, March 18, 1935 et seq.), and Dr. Minobe was forced out of the Imperial University. He resigned from the House of Peers and vanished into his home outside which the Government stationed an unremitting police guard...
...Japanese-Manchus at least two-to-one and Japanese war planes were about to rush belatedly to the rescue clear across the mountains from Tsitsihar, the war base established by Japanese after they defeated famed General Ma and set up the Manchu Emperor (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Relations Ruptured- In jittery fear lest Eastern Asia be plunged into a great war by the fighting begun last week, the more prosperous subjects of His Imperial Majesty Kang Te hastily fled from Manchukuo this week to China until all transport facilities were crushingly overtaxed. In Harbin, the Russian metropolis...
Prompted by the death last year in a TWAirwreck of Senator Bronson Cutting (TIME, May 13 et seq.), the Senate inquiry came out into the open last week for the first time after eight months of special investigation. Empowered only to make recommendations to the Senate, the committee, chairmanned by Senator Copeland, called many an aviation bigwig, scheduled four days to hear their testimony. Excerpts...
...taciturn Captain Edwin C. Musick of the China Clipper keeps a diary, he last week had good reason for grumping in it. The proud program of spanning the Pacific, which he began for Pan American Airways with much éclat last autumn (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq.), has ever since run more & more askew in a crescendo of frustration which last week attained a new climax. The diary...