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Probably War Lord Feng was bluffing but his words produced the effect sure to follow when Chinese hear a leader of their race actually grow bold enough to threaten Japan. The Canton Government of South China headed by General Chen Chi-tang promptly pitched into the Nanking Government "of all China" headed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek who has made a truce with Japan (TIME, June 5). In view of this truce. Generalissimo Chiang had dispatched 60,000 troops to quell War Lord Feng, only to receive demands from General Chen that he call them back. "Canton," wired Canton...
...Colonel Jacob Ruppert, prizefight loving bachelor, owner of Manhattan's most victorious ball club, the New York Yankees, did not in the beginning of the Depression have the big, profitable, post-Prohibition brewing business that he has today. Yet he made a bold decision. He announced that he would back his faith in Manhattan real estate by buying any properties that appealed to him. Last week the Colonel bought the 23-story Hoagland Building on Madison Avenue at 40th Street, and Manhattan did not accuse him of being late in fulfilling his promise. Rather, Manhattan noted that...
Year-and-a-half ago the famed old Police Gazette, pink-covered journal of sports news and chorus girls' pictures, fell victim to the Depression. In its 88 years it had passed through a variety of incarnations, beginning as "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions. . . ." It "crusaded against vice" with marvelous and explicit gusto. Under the administration of the late Richard Kyle Fox, who bought the Gazette in 1876, it gained fame as an arbiter and promoter of sporting events, and was such a fixture in barber shops...
Sirs: . You inform us the pronunciation of those easily had Russian boys is "Mmmdivani." If I may be so bold. sir, let me say that now it is quite clear about their charm. It's the "Mmm" - three letters strung together, which, when uttered by women of all ages, in all languages, say all there is to say. FANNING MILES HEARON Spartanburg...
Berlin newsorgans picked out with bold-face type last week certain phrases in a speech by Nazi Wilhelm Kube. Provincial Governor of Berlin & Brandenburg, which sounded like a hint that pudgy little Chancellor Adolf Hitler could easily be persuaded to accept a crown...