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...will be fought on the most convenient battle-ground in the world--Manchuria and Siberia. There, of all places, two major powers can fight with a minimum danger of involving the rest of the world, especially the United States. If we must have wars, one can hardly recommend a better fighting locus than this area. If the United States got into a war fought in that area it would be because our people wanted to fight regardless of issues. Manchuria is no Belgium, politically or geographically, and the potential belligerents would doubtless pay a decent respect to our insignificant interests...
Died. Harry Emerson Rowbottom, 49, onetime Indiana representative; of diabetes; in Evansville. In 1931 he was convicted of accepting a bribe to recommend a Post Office appointment, was sentenced to serve one year and a day, was later paroled...
...work. After that period a broad basis for the granting of the A.B. degree has been obtained through the organization of the whole University in to the following schools--Biological Sciences, Engineering, Hygiene and Physical Education, Law, Letters, Medicine, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences. The faculties of these schools recommend for the various degrees...
...therefore, a Democrat who tries to represent the wishes of his constituency is to be punished by being denied the opportunity to recommend men for public offices such as collectors of internal revenue, post masterships and so on, thus weakening his prestige in his own district, then what possible advantage, it will be asked in the next campaign, is it for the same district to be represented by a Democrat in preference to a Republican...
...doses? Frankly, I can not explain the whims of the movie fans, for "Flying Down to Rio" presents little that is novel except for a dance by the chorus on the wings of huge planes--and the Carioca, "a hot, volcanic new rhythm that is sweeping America." But I recommend the movie merely on the performance of Fred Astaire who has finally been focused by the cameraman, (you will recall that he lost when he played with Joan Crawford in "Dancing Lady") and because the music is unusually stimulating and fresh...