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...Nimblest of the three disturbers of the Schaefer peace was Shack-Dweller Henry Frees, a onetime acrobat, who once used an $800 settlement for an injury to his arm to run for mayor of Belleville, Ill. He lost both the $800 and the election, went back to his shack. Emerging as a Congressional candidate, Mr. Frees stood on his head while he made campaign speeches, promised, if elected, to do backflips up the Capitol steps. His resounding advice to Congressman Schaefer: "If he doesn't play golf I think he should ought to learn. In case fishing...
...spots in China have kept Japanese trigger fingers itching for a long time: Shanghai and Hong Kong. They are centres and symbols of Western exploitation. They are negations of the New (Japanese) Order. In Shanghai's International Settlement is concentrated almost every major U. S. interest in China...
...Japanese have restrained themselves from taking the Settlement by force and have tried only political graft and craft. Each time they fail they want the area more. Last week they failed again...
MEXICO CITY--The usually well-in-formed Boletin Financiero today published "reliable reports" that agreement has been reached by the Mexican Government and the Sinclair Oil Company for settlement of their 25-month-old expropriation dispute...
...very rich Mr. Skeffington whom Lady Fanny married before 1914, whom she divorced at 28 after his seventh infidelity, and to whose still worshipful settlement she owed 22 years of delicious freedom. Since her illness last autumn, Fanny has found his apparition continually turning up, especially at breakfast. After crying over her grapefruit, Fanny decides this morning to consult a Harley Street specialist, Sir Stilton Byles...