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...voicing his relief at his success as a field-marshal in beating off and vanquishing, at least for a time, the armies of war lords opposed to his regime (TIME, Oct. 14, et seq). Whewed he: "The recent upheaval against our Government was the greatest yet experienced. Our fate hung by a single hair. What was this hair? The loyalty and bravery of our officers and men, whose courage never faltered! Again they met the flood and carried us to firm ground." (Floods are the most frequent catastrophe in China, others scarcely less frequent being droughts and plagues...
...before the State War & Navy Building and were starting back when city and White House policemen swooped down to arrest them. The charge: Parading without a permit. Singing the "Internationale" and jeering a White House motor car, they were marched off to the police station, thoroughly pleased with their fate...
...Thompson quoted letters from booksellers in Winnipeg, Chicago, San Francisco, Toledo, Seattle, Atlanta, Cleveland, telling of complaints against the book, threats to withdraw custom unless sale of the book was stopped, testifying to the effective activities of Christian Science Committees on Publication. Author Thompson reminded his readers of the fate of an earlier biography of Mrs. Eddy, The Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy, by Adam & Lillian S. Dickey, published in 1927 by the Merrymount Press of Boston. This book was recalled at the behest of the Board of Directors of the Mother Church in Boston so thoroughly that now only...
...remarks about the spirit of democracy, the traditional freedom of the undergraduate, and--thunder from Plympton Street--the evils of the system. It may be that the upperclassmen have some sentiment about breaking established attachment with the Georgian. And there will naturally and rightly be some concern about the fate of the Clubs. But if their place is equally well or better filled by the Houses, there ought to be no great regret if some of them at least do go out of existence...
Those who have attempted to follow Boston censorship through the intricate maze of reasoning which decides the fate of cultural efforts in the City across the Charles find it a difficult task to justify the logic of its latest pronunclamentos. The injustice of the "Strange Interlude" debacle and the growing list of banned books, as burlesque shows and arty magazines proceed unmolested, is almost as inexplicable as the astounding quiescence which greets the presence of Bertrand Russell in Boston...