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...owner may own near a city or industrial centre more than 150 acres and in the eastern border lands more than 750 acres. All surplus property, under the meaning of the act passed by the Diet, is to be purchased from the landlords by cash and 5% bonds and sold to the peasant on credit terms extending over 40 years...
Beyond the bare announcement of a civil war in Szechwan, largest Chinese Province, which is situate at the extreme west of the Tibetan border, nothing of a positive nature occurred in China or about China or out of it. The crisis, which has been for some weeks in existence (TIME, June 15 et seq.) was still present, but was rapidly taking on a traditional Chinese aspect and becoming stolid, static...
Canadian Champion. Americans crossed the border stalking the Canadian Amateur Golf title. They soon collapsed. Max R. Marston, crinkly-haired 1923 U. S. Amateur Champion, was let down at the 38th hole by C. Ross Somerville of the London (Ont.) Hunt Club. George H. ("Porky") Flynn of Pittsburgh, a familiar young figure on Long Island links, passed away before Don Carrick of Toronto in the next round, 2 down. Carrick and Somerville were the finalists, the former spurting steadily ahead...
...verges on insanity. An analytical person, particularly a racial polyglot, can cope with the welter of causes and patriotisms only by adopting a sportive fatalism. Author Gerhardi's minor characters develop this sociological thesis on a very high plane of comedy. The major characters, who dwell on the border line of high tragedy, give a more intimate demonstration of the same philosophy...
Geographically, the area affected by the merger stretches from the Canadian Border at Niagara to the Gulf of Mexico at New Orleans and other Gulfports, and from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi River...