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...white robes to take the Klan oath in the Klavern of Robert E. Lee Klan No. 1 in Birmingham in 1923; that in 1925, more than a year before the Senatorial primaries in which he defeated anti-Klan Senator Oscar W. Underwood, Hugo Black got Alabama's Grand Dragon and Great Titans to pledge him their support for the U. S. Senate; that the next step in the Black campaign was to write a letter of resignation from the Klan, to be produced if anti-Klan sentiment developed during the campaign...
...sixty hand-picked Chinese police began laboriously to learn the Japanese language. The Peiping Chamber of Commerce opened Japanese language classes to make it easier for Chinese shopkeepers to sell things to their "new masters." There was even rumor that Japan would bring back to Peiping from his dragon-&-orchid throne in Manchukuo's capital 31-year-old Emperor Kang Te, famed as "Mr. Henry Pu Yi," last of China's Manchu Emperors, who abdicated when the Republic was set up in 1912, was crowned Emperor of Manchukuo by Japan...
...focus of North China. Between 1931 and 1934 Japanese soldiers set up the genealogically ''legitimate heir" to the Throne of China as the Emperor of Manchukuo (see map), their puppet His Majesty Kang Te. The next logical step would be to seat this Manchu Emperor on the Dragon Throne of his ancestors at Peiping. To engineer such a coup, Japan sent to China her master schemer and spy, Major General Kenji Doihara who intrigued and bribed for the five North China provinces of Hopei, Chahar, Suiyuan, Shansi and Shantung to set themselves up as "autonomous" and independent...
Maintenance activity on the Northern front yesterday indicated that the University may be facing another insect war. Reports that a herd of termites had been seen entering the Yard called forth spade men who were seen at work throughout the afternoon around the Chinese whatsis, or dragon, by Boylston Hall...
...feet high and thirteen feet from horn to tail, the models are worthy rivals in size for the Yard's Chinese dragon. It is reliably reported that they are lady rhinoceri, but they are not twins, since they were designed and cast separately...