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...Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931, which was precipitated by Japan's Army leaders in defiance of the Cabinet's more conciliatory policy (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931 et seq.}, the spunky Military have successfully taken the offensive against Japan's civilian government. A renascence of sword-flourishing nationalism, fostered by the Army leaders has swept over Japan and has just been given still more punch by the Japanese-German agreement to fight Communism (TIME, Dec. 7) and by the even more recent Japanese-Italian accord in which Japan recognized Mussolini's conquest of Ethiopia. Last...
...bold reform through Congress, Mr. Roosevelt characteristically asks for general authority and leaves the details to be worked out after Congress has handed over the sword; in other words, when it is too late to change anything. The President complains he is so overworked that he cannot adequately discharge his duties, while, in corroboration, the Brownlow Committee believes that the executive branch has grown up haphazardly. As an added enticement to Congress, it is thought that the whole idea saves the "most costly bureaucracy in history" thirty millions...
Author Dodge has based her romantic tale on a rubble foundation of fact. Claverhouse was a real character who, she thinks, has been handled over roughly by historians. As raw material for the cinema, Graham of Claverhouse is magnificent stuff. As a book, it is cloak-&-sword romance, Grade...
...long time before he forgets publishing in his Journal a hasty report by Drs. Cutting & Tainter of San Francisco that dinitrophenol was a useful drug for fat people to take to reduce weight speedily. Dinitrophenol does reduce weight. But as Dr. Fishbein warily editorialized, ". . . it is a two-edged sword with appalling possibilities for harm as well as for good." It was soon found that dinitrophenol also causes cataracts, scarcity of white blood cells, other disabilities (TIME, July...
...held Peiping (TIME, June 27, 1927 et seq.) indulged his habit of doing something so fantastic that today only Adolf Hitler does it: he caused the heads of Communists to be actually chopped off and "roll in the sand." Old Chang's executioner with his great broad sword, and sometimes Old Chang with his gold-plated Mauser pistol, killed many more Reds than ever the Nazis have. He also, on his own responsibility as no gentleman and a War Lord, burst open Soviet Embassy offices at Peiping and filled the world for weeks with evidence of its machinations which...