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...Japanese forces now predominant in North China will see all their silver slip through their fingers to Nanking. One way to stop such a slip was to scare the daylights out of China by another "Shanghai Incident." In Peiping, where Japanese last week forced the installation of puppet Mayor Chin Teh-chuan, Japanese military authorities gave an inkling of what the Araki Brothers may be up to by having their official spokesman boom: "If North China should send her silver to Nanking, the economic structure of North China would collapse, and Japan's attempt to build up the prosperity...
Crimson soccer teams netted a win and a loss here yesterday as the Freshmen rallied to defeat Worcester Academy, 3-1, while the Junior Varsity was taking it on the chin, 5-1, from New Bedford...
...even greater age is a 12th century South Indian bronze statue, the most valuable object in the exhibit. Another bronze, which is mounted on a pedestal near the entrance, symbolizes the incarnation of Buddah. Every line of his face, from his furrowed brow to the tip of his pointed chin which is couched between thumb and fore-finger, helps to form an expression of deep meditation...
...bill"-a reference to the $45,000,000 lost by the bankers and remaining as a debt of honor. Assisted through the pack of photographers at the door, he climbed tiredly into his three-year-old Chrysler, was driven off slumped down in the corner of the rear seat, chin deep in his hand...
Weiss was fully disabled by a blow to the chin before sixty bullets left the revolvers of armed bodyguards to pepper his body. From all reports he could have been tied up, taken to jail, and given a fair trial. Courts act quickly in such cases. This is what happened to Zangara, the would-be assassin of President Roosevelt, and to the slayers of Garfield and McKinley; yet the scene in the Louisiana state capitol resembled the settling of accounts between rival gangs...