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...This does not mean that any fixed agreement on disarmament has been made, because the two nations would certainly not commit themselves to details until the attitudes of the other powers had been obtained at a general conference...
...Japanese villages bonfires were set alight, barelegged, short-jacketed watchmen ran through the streets beating gongs. It was hours before the true facts were learned. Aghast at the error all the officers of Tokyo's central broadcasting station resigned, grimly realized that it was their traditional duty to commit harikari...
Newsmen, scarcely believing Cracker-shot Pershing could commit such an error, tried to verify the Woollcott beat. From Paris, the general was quoted as saying: "There is absolutely nothing to it." In Manhattan Financier Baruch insisted: "It is pure fiction. I ought to know...
Captain B. B. Wygant, Professor of Naval Science and Tactics, declined to speak of the Shearer situation specifically, because he knew nothing about it excepting what he read in the newspapers, the frequent errors of whose reporting make him hesitate to commit himself. However, on the general subject of the proposed naval equality of Great Britain and the United States, Captain Wygant said that naval officers in general were in favor of any plan that would produce peace, "but perhaps naval officers more than others realize the sacrifices that are entailed by not being ready when any emergency may arise...
Anyone may commit murder, but not anyone can commit a "good" murder. Says Author Sutherland: "By a 'good' murder I mean one that involves, in the order named, sex, wealth, mystery, romance, celebrities, beauty, and youth." The murderers in these ten cases are yet unproved by the police, but mere readers may solve the mysteries as they please. In this book Author Sutherland gives all salient facts of these cases: Elwell, Dot King, Taylor, Kennedy, Lambert, Borden, Molineux, Dorothy Arnold, Mary Phagan, Hall-Mills. To the task of giving them more permanent value Author Sutherland, 20 years a newsgatherer, brings...