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...hand we find the Machiavelli of the same C. I. O. pursuing the methods typical of that old master of cunning and conniving, working through the catacombs of politics, pouring oil upon the troubled machinery of national politics so that where the one smashes through in ruthless effort at conquest, the other follows after with soft words, with the trappings of intellectualism and the tenuous and slithering tactics of the ancient masters of deception and ensnaring. We refer to one called Sidney Hillman...
Sport Geography. The U. S. game of football captured first the East, then the Midwest, then the Pacific Coast. As its conquest went on, great football teams sprang up in region after region to contest the supremacy of the sections where football first reigned. To the South football came later than to any other section. The University of Virginia, which is generally credited with starting the modern game of football in the South, sent a team to try out the North in 1890, two decades after the first intercollegiate game was played in New Brunswick, N. J. The test...
Fall of Paoting. Japan's main army, advancing down upon the Yellow River from North China, had failed up to last week in its objective of "destroying" and not merely beating back the retreating Chinese troops. Finally the Japanese, after rolling their conquest southward 50 mi. in the preceding ten days, not only took the city of Paoting (see map, p. 17) with its huge walls and 80,000 inhabitants but surrounded it, so that as Chinese troops fled out the back gates Japanese machine gun crews "annihilated them to the last man." Even so, conquering General Count Juichi...
...search and seize merchant ships. All this added up to just about the ablest set of moves Chinese could possibly make to stir the moribund League to action, and stirring were the words of Dr. Wellington Koo, although he never once spoke of "war": "Intoxicated by his last conquest, the invader [Japan] is bent upon ruthless slaughter and wanton destruction. The lives of 450,000,000 people are at stake. . . . The Japanese forces invading Chinese territory show utter disregard for all the rules of international law. The law of morality gives place to violence and anarchy. . . . Civilization and the security...
...pink" Czechoslovakia, a Fascist headache because of her mutual assistance pact with Soviet Russia. Glowing with good food and drink, the diplomats spiked Mussolini's hopes by reaffirming their policy of sticking together, approving a hands-off policy in Spain, dodging the question of recognition of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, and loudly restating their loyalty to the League of Nations. Rumania's Foreign Minister Victor Antonescu went out of his way to state...