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...national apathy in the purchase of tickets for the fight. Although the advance sale has been ballyhooed as amounting to $700,000, actual inspection of accounts showed less than $40,000 in the credit columns. Indications are that the fight will draw meagerly and that Montana will have to collect reparations from every state in the Union to pull itself out of the hole...
There is, however, another side to the cause of the Cabinet's fall. China, for a long time, has not been able to collect taxes outside of Peking. This situation, occasioned by the opposition of the Tuchuns, grew worse instead of better. The Government was unable to meet interest payments on national loans, the Army and Navy complained and mutinied on account of not being paid, Government officials have been without salaries and diplomatic and consular officials have been in the same plight for nearly a year...
...never liked him anyway. General Wu then wrote to his friend General Shen Hung-Yung, Tuchun of Kwang-Tung province, and suggested a little war on Dr. Sun. This is still going on. Throughout the squabbles of the Tuchuns the Peking Government has been powerless to interfere and to collect taxes...
...Princeton team invaded the Stadium and overwhelmed the Crimson track men in a meet featured by many record performances, the final score standing 85 1-2 to 49 1-2. The following week-end, many University athletes competed in the intercollegiate contests in Philadelphia, but were able to collect only six points for eleventh place. Yale, however, amassed a total of 23, and was beaten for the title only by California and Princeton...
...governor's approval or veto, the evidence is strong that his opinion was political as well as personal. And yet his approval would seem highly impolitic unless Governor Smith has a keener eye than most men. To secure the Democratic nomination, a two-thirds vote is necessary, and to collect this two-thirds out of the dry South and the dry Middle West, which represent the main strength of the Democratic party, seems impossible...