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First Blow? But, since the Kellogg Pact loses its legalistic potency to prevent war as soon as shots have actually been fired by one of the adversaries, major interest centred last week on numerous border skirmishes, incessantly rumored to be taking place along the Chino-Russian frontier. The moment such a skirmish assumed sufficiently bloody proportions to be called an "overt act," it might serve as the tinder spark of war. Soon across the barrier of censorship, lies vast and uncharted distances, came a loud Chinese accusation. The Governor-Dictator of Manchuria, Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, officially charged that...
From the Polish border the tourists had come in a special train of mahogany-trimmed sleeping cars complete with electric fans and shower baths, relics of Imperial Russia. Impressed with the attentions of the Russian conductor, Heiress Bauer-offered him a small gratuity...
...enterprise will, the aviation companies confidently expect, travel often to South America so soon as transportation is swift, safe. Such travelers will willingly pay high, profitable fares. Then it may be that great cities will grow in the South American interior, a region of potentially vast fruitfulness. Then the border cities will become metropolitan terminals instead of the way-stations
Charles Augustus Stone lives during the winter on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; during the summer at Locust Valley, L. I. He is a tall, spare man with hair that has turned almost white except for a black border along the neck. When he speaks of the company's activities, he invariably says, "Mr. Webster and I" or "Stone & Webster," never uses the first person pronoun alone. He likes yachting and tennis, but his chief avocation is breeding horses on his stock farms in Virginia and New Hampshire...
...Washington. Harried by Prohibition problems, President Hoover made a reply through the Press last week to the City Council of International Falls, Minn., which had cried "For God's sake, help us!" after the killing of Henry Virkula by a U. S. border patrolman (TIME, June 24). Declared the President: "I deeply deplore the killing of any person. The Treasury is making every effort to prevent the misuse of firearms. . . . I hope the communities along the border will do their best to help the Treasury end the systematic war that is being carried on by international criminals against the laws...