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This was a threat the rest of the world could not ignore. Until 1840 Shanghai was little more than a second rate Chinese city sitting on a mud flat at the mouth of the turbulent Yangtze River, but in 1842 Britain defended her right to sell dope to the Chinese by fighting and winning the Opium War. Shanghai was made one of five Treaty Ports opened to foreign trade. Other nations saw the importance of the city. France and the U. S. acquired territorial concessions there. Shanghai became the funnel mouth for half the commerce of China. Today...
...Professor of the Science of Government, emeritus, stated in an interview yesterday. Professor Hart declared that although the League of Nations has accomplished a great deal to preserve the peace of the world, it will never be able to meet a real international crisis without a much more potent threat to the offending countries than it now has, namely an appeal to them to consider the interests of mankind...
CONTRARY TO YOUR STATEMENT IN TIME DECEMBER 21, REASON OF WITHDRAWAL OF WILLIAM FRANCIS CUTTEN FROM COLGATE UNIVERSITY BEARD-GROWING CONTEST WAS NOT THREAT OF HIS FATHER BUT OF A GIRL TO BREAK DATE. PRESIDENT GEORGE BARTON CUTTEN. NO ANTIBEARDIST. SPORTED A FULL BEARD WHILE PROMINENT MEMBER OF YALE '98 FOOTBALL TEAM. SURVEY OF COLGATE FACULTY REVEALS SEVEN BEARDISTS AND TWENTY-ONE MUSTACHERS AMONG ONE HUNDRED MEMBERS. PROMINENT BEARDISTS ARE WILLIAM HENRY CRAWSHAW, DONALD ANDERSON LAIRD, ALBERT PERRY BRIGHAM, JOSEPH FRANK MCGREGORY. NO BEARDIST SINCE HIS COLLEGE DAYS, ACADIA-TRAINED PRESIDENT CUTTEN HAS AN ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF OF FIVE CLEAN...
...Indiana, it seemed, arose in angry protest. Senator James Eli Watson and the state's entire Congressional delegation pleaded with "General" Brown to withdraw his threat. Loudly they pointed out that the Post Office Department had no authority to change a village's name and that so long as the people of Santa Claus wanted to be Santa Clausians, their post office should stay Santa Claus...
...April primaries she would be a candidate for the Republican Congressional nomination. Long ambitious to sit in the House, she unhesitatingly seized the McFadden outburst as a springboard for her campaign. Said she: "Every one must resent an unsubstantiated accusation of treason against the President." No idle threat against Congressman McFadden was Mrs. Pinchot's candidacy. Great-granddaughter of the late great Peter Cooper, Manhattan philanthropist and manufacturer of the first U. S. steam locomotive,* daughter of the late Congressman, editor and diplomat, Lloyd Stephens Bryce, auburn-haired Cornelia Pinchot is a consummate politician. Bluntspoken, quick-witted, shrewd...