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...Manchukuo as a puppet state. He was chief of the Japanese Army Secret Service in Mukden at the time- the service which makes incidents. Few months later Doihara was in Harbin before those unfortunate outbreaks of "banditry" which caused Japan to take that strategic city on the Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Later it was perhaps Doihara who fomented enough "unrest" in Tientsin to excuse the bringing in of Japanese troops who imposed the humiliating Tangku Truce (TIME, June 5, 1933).Today, so great is Spy Chief Doihara's reputation that he can be as modest...
...Waterloo legs, Sir Bernard thought, had been lifeless only twelve hours. When railway attendants reported that three lackadaisical young men had loitered around the car in which the legs were found before the train left a suburban station, Scotland Yard announced that they are being "sought for questioning." As in Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1, when found, the Waterloo legs were wrapped in newspapers which had absorbed most of the blood, then encased in brown paper...
...stock and bond quotations melted, railroad investors grew fearful that some headline calamity was imminent. One Southern Railway (mileage: 8,017) bond issue dropped eight points in a single session, and New York, New Haven & Hartford (mileage: 2,072) issues sank five points to new lows for the year, around 25? or 30? on the dollar. New Haven's new president Howard S. Palmer, who succeeded John Jeremiah Pelley last autumn, felt obliged to announce: "We are not contemplating any reorganization at this time...
...road, writes learned treatises on Roman farm management under the pseudonym "A Virginia Farmer." Though he has lately given up reading daily newspapers as a waste of time, President Harrison last week unbent enough to give the Press nine words: "There are no financial difficulties facing the Southern Railway...
Texas Rangers were still combing the coulees for cattle thieves and badmen when the Texas Pacific Land Trust was organized in 1888. Its assets were 3,450,000 acres of Texas land originally granted by the State of Texas to Texas Pacific Railway. Its liabilities were $10,370,000 of certificates issued in a reorganization of that railroad which segregated the land grants from the carrier properties. And its purpose was liquidation...