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...Back to the Navy Department the President gave the naval oil reserves, revoking the Executive order issued by President Harding under which Secretary of the Interior Fall negotiated the illegal leases with Mr. Doheny and Mr. Sinclair. Only the Teapot Dome reserve remains to be returned...
...multitude of sins. A few days ago at Nankin one American life was lost, two Americans were wounded, and in return Admiral Hough bombarded the city, killing scores, at least, possibly hundreds, of Chinese. It is a wonder that any Americans at all are left alive in the interior of China. And the ultimate decision as to our policy in China seems to be with this same Admiral Hough...
...upon hearing that Mrs. W. D. Cornish of Manhattan, 80-year-old widow of one of our vice presidents and since his death an indefatigable traveler, had arrived safely at Johannesburg, South Africa, after a 4,000-mile motor trip from the Mediterranean shore of the continent, through the interior, accompanied by no white escort save her cousin, a Miss Hooper. Despatches related how, camping one night near a native road gang, Mrs. Cornish heard a man-eating lion roar, then die of bullets; how, lost in wildest Ukamba, her reserve machine broke down, obliging her to sit up amidst...
...explained that in the entire territory of Dutch New Guinea including thousands of square miles there are only three white settlements in each of which there are approximately 20 white inhabitants. Today, of course, the cannibalistic and head hunting proclivities of the natives are confined almost exclusively to the interior, where the inhabitants of one village not only hunt and eat the men, women and children of the next village, but speak an entirely different language...
...linguistic feature is an interesting one," said Putnam. "With a focus at the Malay Peninsula the great Malay-Polynesian group of languages is spoken west to Madagascar, and east of New Guinea to Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, and all the islands of Polynesia. But in the unattractive interior of New Guinea, untouched by the conquering Malay speaking peoples, are the Papuans, who speak about sixty languages, related neither to the Malay-Polynesian, nor to each other...