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...Imperial police is assigned to spy on political suspects, obtain evidence by methods in which, according to last week's revelations, strong drink and loose women figure. On the night of Oct. 30, according to last week's disclosures, no Tokyo police put on bullet-proof vests and stealthily surrounded an inn at Atami in which eleven Communist leaders were asleep. Ten were seized as they slumbered. The eleventh woke up, shot four policemen, wounded them sorely...
Tobacco companies were not entirely "depression-proof" but earnings held up remarkably. Liggett 6 Myers fell only $46,000 short of equaling 1931's $23,121,000 and Reynolds earned $33,674,000 against $36,396,000. Reynolds earnings were actually $4,000,000 higher than reported, that figure representing the excess of advertising appropriations for 1932 against actual expenditures. Breaking in newspapers last fortnight was the new Camel campaign, handled and written by William Esty & Co. (TIME, Dec. 26). Its motif: "It's fun to be fooled. . . . It's more fun to know...
Until someone accumulates convincing proof to the contrary, the greatest single cause of divorce will continue to be marriage. This is a platitude to which any benedict would subscribe. But Butler University in Indianapolis has evolved a contrary principle. It has resolved to offer a course in Marriage, to consider the "physical, psychological, economic, social, domestic, and religious" aspects of wedded life...
...called Chinese Government took no steps to send either the heroic igth or any other Chinese army to recapture Shanhaikwan-an impossible task. "Every Chinese should feel happy and honored to die like the Shanhaikwan heroes," bleated Nanking's Daily News. "Such bravery and heroism is proof that there is hope of a rebirth of the Chinese nation and of Chinese glory...
Last week at the final 1932 caucus of the Government's "People's Party" or Kuomintang (TIME, Dec. 26), Dr. Soong, who graduated from Harvard in 1915, presented his historic, balanced budget with this laconic, Bostonian statement: "Gentlemen, the proof of the pudding is in the eating! . . . Our credit is enhanced, our bonds are selling 20% higher than last year. . . . The striking progress thus achieved offsets all hostile propaganda that China is in chaos with a tottering Government...