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...Whatever the official explanation, whatever the extenuating circumstances, Japan's single-handed intervention in the Shanghai area is a blunder of the first magnitude...
...lesser scaups. Pintails, mallards, black ducks and geese were little below normal. Low water concentrated what birds there were in the good feeding grounds, causing many shooters to doubt that a shortage existed. Bureau agents found such concentrations in Florida's "panhandle" district, in the Crane Lake area of Illinois, along Missouri's Sheridan River. Southern California's flight, usually 40 miles wide, was ten miles last year. Little affected by Drought were areas on Puget Sound, the Columbia River, the Susquehanna flats, and Long Island. Last year's curtailed season, believed to have reduced...
...Crimson from H. E. Robbins '35, who is a member of a student delegation visiting the Kentucky mining fields in Bell County. The Crimson does not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed herein but feels they are of interest, especially in view of all censorship of news from this area...
...most cursory examination of the memorial itself, however, is sufficient to establish it as a forgery. On the first page, the area of Manchuria and Inner and Outer Mongolia is given as 74,000 sq. mi. In point of fact, the area of Manchuria alone is 383,000 sq. mi. On the second page, the total investment of Japan in its "railway, shipping, mining, forestry, steel manufacture, agriculture, and cattle raising" enterprises in Manchuria is placed at 440 million yen. This figure, however, represents only the capitalization of the South Manchuria Railway Company; Japan's total investment in Manchuria...
...troopers of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania began stopping cars at all bridgeheads, ferries, and at the mouth of the sub-Hudson Holland Tunnel. By morning a gigantic posse of police, troopers, U. S. Department of Justice operatives, Coast Guardsmen, American Legionaries, Quiet Birdmen, civilians was combing an area from Boston to Baltimore. There had never been such an intensive search party since Booth shot Lincoln...