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...willful failure to report the full amount, and Bishop Cannon with "aiding and abetting'' her, which if proved makes him equally guilty. Four counts charge mere technical, unwitting violations, implicating the Bishop in the same manner. The remaining two counts charge conspiracy "with divers other persons" to commit the (willful) felony and the (unwitting) misdemeanor...
...Emperor would not forgive me and my position was impossible. I would be more than ever at the mercy of eunuchs, who had abused me for nine years. So I decided to commit suicide...
Though she had won so much, Concubine Shu Fei still smarted last week under the rebukes of her brother. He, a confirmed bootlicker of Manchus, had reminded her by letter that the duty of an Imperial concubine is, of course, to commit suicide rather than displease her lord. Conscious of this moral duty, Shu Fei cried last week, "But I had planned to kill myself, I swear...
...remember that at the time the Emperor was forced out of the Forbidden City, you carried a knife under your sleeve, ready to commit suicide should any mishap occur to the Emperor or yourself? What a holy and divine spirit was that, and how you have changed now into a different person...
...horse or motor magnified itself into daily monsoons at Manila. The native House of Representatives began devoting a daily half-hour period to bombarding Secretary Hurley. Speaker Manuel Roxas, leader of the independence bloc, nearly beside himself with impatience at Secretary Hurley's failure to commit himself on what his three weeks on the islands had shown him, truculently declared that "if Mr. Hurley believes what we think he believes, a compromise is impossible." Equally amazing was the cabal's declaration that if Secretary Hurley asked for a round table conference-which he did not-the independence bloc...