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China's heroic eigth Route Army on its desperate and hopeless defense of Shanghai (TIME, March 14 et ante), was contributed not by the Government but by terror-stricken Shanghai bankers and merchants and patriotic Chinese abroad-a clear budgetary saving of $12,000,000. As Dr. Soong said stubbornly, three months after the Shanghai Incident: "At present the most important thing for China is to restore her financial stability. We must go on living within our income for a year. We have done it for five months. The Chinese financial situation is better now than that...
...young people who are discussing this important problem far more seriously than we. . . ." Methodist Bishop James Cannon Jr. objected to the phrase "and other qualified persons," declaring that only physicians should be allowed to give information and then only when directly consulted. In the end the first passage was stricken out, the second left in. Into the Federal Council's "social ideals creed" was inserted a resolution against gambling, and at Bishop Cannon's behest a pledge of support for the 18th Amendment. Another section read: "Divorce or separation may be and often is preferable to the enforced...
...Agamemnon, murdered in his bath. Soprano Gertrude Kappel, ragged and disheveled, long black hair flying, scuttled, slunk and pranced around the stage, effectively shrilling her hatred for her mother Queen Klytemnestra, passionately pleading for the help of her lovely weak sister Chrysothemis (Soprano Goeta Ljungberg), eerily warning the conscience-stricken queen of the day when her son Orestes shall return, come upon her in her bed, hack her with an axe until blood streams red as it streamed in Agamemnon's bath...
...Leavenworth Penitentiary ("Bankers' Institute"). On his way to prison he picked his handcuffs loose, plunged from a moving train at Coffeyville, Kan., made his escape to California. There he married, served as a deputy sheriff, grew well-to-do running a store and tourist camp at Westmoreland. Conscience-stricken, he turned up at Leavenworth in October, announced that he was ready to serve his term. Only after a long search could the Department of Justice find any record of his case. He told his jailer that since 1920 California's Senator Shortridge and Representative Swing had known...
...ground floor of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry. reorganization in 1917. is now a member of its executive committee, Wall Street was not surprised that the new board included two Rock Island men. Edward Norphlet Brown, chairman of the executive committee (he is also board chairman of stricken St. Louis-San Francisco) and Peter Gansevoort Ten Eyck. At its first meeting the new board chose Insurgent Amster as president...