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...everyone knows, Minseito Premier Baron Wakatsuki opposed but was unable to stop the Army's plunge into Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28). His successor, the Seiyukai's "Old Fox,'" pandered eagerly to the Army & Navy, but the costly setback at Shanghai forced the Foreign Office to negotiate what the fighting services were bound to consider a "disgraceful withdrawal" (TIME, May 16). This, though not the fault of the "Old Fox," led him straight into a trap of Japanese swashbuckling hysteria which cost him his life last week...
Lowell House gained a commanding lead in League B squash yesterday by handing Kirkland a 5 to 0 setback, thus toppling the Kirkland recquetmen from first to third place in the standing. The League A standing remained the same, with Dunster in the lead, closely followed by Lowell and Eliot, in that order. Wednesday's incompleted match between Adams and Leverett in League C went to Leverett by a 3 to 2 score, when J. F. Preston '32 (Lev) defeated Talcott Parsons, Tutor...
...mountainous hillsides. It was very hot. ''Millions of beastly little insects" bit them, and their bites "stung and irritated like the deuce." Soon their time was up; baffled but undaunted they went back to England. "One of these days," says Capt. Campbell, in spite of this setback and in spite of the known failure of other Cocos Island treasure-seekers, he will try again...
...most regrettable aspects of the Manchurian tangle is the setback which it is giving to sentiment for repeal of the Japanese exclusion act. In recent years the opinion has spread that the exclusion was unnecessary, and even unjust. The notion that Japanese immigration furnished dangerous competition for American labor was gradually being dispelled. The two hundred Japanese who would be admitted yearly by the quota system could hardly disturb American labor even in the depression...
...Wisconsin last week the Administration received a setback. Backed by. the La Follette brothers and Senator John J. Elaine, Thomas R. Amlie defeated State Senator George W. Blanchard for the Republican nomination for Congressman from the ist District, the seat formerly filled by the late Congressman Henry Allen Cooper. Candidate Amlie campaigned as a Wet, criticized the Administration's unemployment and Tariff policies. Opposed to him in the election Oct. 13 will be George Herzog, who is conceded little chance of winning...