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...same time Cantonese General Chen Chi-tang accepted a long-standing order from Chiang Kai-shek to suppress bandits in five southeastern provinces. Canton also withdrew its support of ''Christian General" Feng Yu-hsiang, strutting in Chahar Province. And last week 47 Chinese Generals signed a circular telegram supporting the truce and repudiating General Feng...
...Texas newsman, Bascom N. Timmons, said to represent either Publisher Amon Giles Carter of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram or Eugene Lorton of the Tulsa World, opened the bidding at $250,000, the minimum set by the court. At $300,000 Mrs. McLean's lawyer, Nelson Hartson, chimed in. Then Lawyer Geoffrey Konta, for William Randolph Hearst. Up, up the bidding soared to $600,000, mounted again when Lawyer Hartson went inside to consult Mrs. McLean. Sadly she told him to withdraw. "I think $600,000 is all it's worth," she said. Presently the auction narrowed...
From Geneva, where Foreign Minister Paul-Boncour had been studying the agreement carefully there came a sudden telegram. Premier Daladier instantly subsided. Delegate Paul-Boncour's first job was to rush to France's excited allies. Rumania, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Poland, and assure them that nothing had been signed, that there was no immediate threat to all the land acquired by them through the Versailles Treaty...
...Pecora. that the present John P. Morgan is the main driving force of the House of Morgan. Also according to formula behaved the Scripps-Howard chain of 25 newspapers. Their formula being "liberalism." none must excel them in excoriation of unphilanthropic wealth. Their lead hound, the New York World Telegram, soon turned the predictable "revelations" of the investigation into a "shocking" scandal...
...these," he reported. And "the question [of the man on the street] heard everywhere around the Capitol is, 'What chance have we got?' " Pitched to a sustained keynote of Wall Street wickedness. Tucker's stories were masterfully written and made exciting reading. Also in the World Telegram, Pinko Heywood Broun surpassed himself with cynical skits about the House of Morgan and its Friends in high places. Apropos the 1929 letter of Morgan Partner William Ewing by which William H. Woodin, now Secretary of the Treasury, was let in on the ground floor of Alleghany Corp. stock because...