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...bastinado of the present trend of U. S. politics, has seized the role of Senator inquisitor, which Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana and the late LaFollette of Wisconsin once held. Everyone knows how Senator Reed revealed several millions in certified slush in Pennsylvania and Illinois (TIME, May 31, et seq.) ; how he dragged the Anti-Saloon League into the investigations and gave it its first important public airing. These are some of the reasons why the Gentleman from Missouri, vigorous at the age of 65, finds himself the only Senator who is being boomed for President. He intended...
...pursue a Chinaphobe policy in an effort to wrest back the British concession at Hankow from the Chinese Nationalists who recently seized it by mob force (TIME, Jan. 17). Sir Austen made public, last week, the secret text of the present Chino-British agreement concerning Hankow (TIME, Jan. 24 et seq.); and this was found to be a quiet peaceable undertaking to administer Hankow in future by a Chino-British Council on which Chinese would slightly predominate...
Described as "mystic, intransigeant, impetuous," Dr. Yanguas has stood so firmly on the letter of Spain's international rights that: 1) Spain quit the League of Nations after making politically impossible demands for a Permanent League Council Seat (TIME, March 29, 1926 et seq.); 2) In Paris, last week, a secret Franco-Spanish parley concerning Morocco broke down after prolonged negotiations...
Since October Chang has been wringing $300,000 a month additional tribute out of Sun Chuan-fang, the comparatively benevolent despot at Shanghai, in payment for not attacking Sun in the rear, while Sun has been defending Shanghai from the Southern Nationalist (Cantonese) Army (TIME, Oct. 4 et...
They were problems in the multiplication and division of compound fractions. "Find 83 1/3% of 460." Clackety clackety-clackety-clack, went chalk in the fingers of a shrewd urchin. Clack-ety-clack-et . . , but before the blushing adult competitor had finished his third tier of multiplication, the urchin stood triumphantly at ease. It was quicker when you recognized...