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Police suspected no "higher-ups." Federal officers at once took charge and custody under the statute passed last July, carrying penalties for mailing kidnap threats and ransom demands of $5,000 fine or 20 years in prison or both. The other new sword to avenge Baby Lindbergh is the 1932 Federal law against actual interstate kidnapping, providing "such term of years [in prison] as the court, in its discretion shall determine...
...dogs frankly expect to see a real Japanese fleet sail the same course, some day, trying to strike the same blow on the Pacific coast. All plans for defense are predicated upon that possibility-including the presence of the Scouting Force west of the Panama Canal. Japan, rattling her sword in Manchuria as never before, is in strained relations with the U. S. as a result of the Stimson doctrine of nonrecognition of Manchukuo. In Tokyo there was no popular doubt that the massing of U. S. warships in the Pacific was a naval gesture against Japan. But diplomacy still...
...this young man to take up arms for President Lowell is a gallant gesture. Yet he should be aware that the traditional gentleman is careful with whom he draws his sword. If he were, he would realize that this slashing of thin air in defence of President Lowell and with such an adversary as the Chicago Tribune is unseemly. Will not this last reproach suffice for any good Bostonian...
...Veterans). "The German Republic," said Count Eulenberg, "is like an African Negro who struts about in a high silk hat, celluloid cuffs and with a red parasol-thinking he's a civilized gentleman! . . . [Guffaws] There is no better capital investment, my friends, than a bright and shining sword [cheers]. . . . Bread comes through the sword...
...Foreign Powers that, in effect, the U. S. would not recognize conquest by force. The U. S. became the last obstacle in the Divine Emperor's way. But in the mind of Sadao Araki there is just one means (to date highly successful) to overcome obstacles: the sword of the Samurai...