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Tokyo was tense with apprehension of a coup d'état last week. For the first time a newsorgan of first magnitude made articulate the mounting fear that Japan's parliamentary institutions (imported only 42 years ago from the West) might be thrust aside by the military clique which launched Japan on her recent Manchurian and Shanghai adventures...
...days after Sheriff Farley's removal the man who unearthed the evidence against him, Counsel Samuel Seabury of the Legislative investigation, went to Cincinnati. Addressing the City Charter (Reform) Committee, he took a thrust at Governor Roosevelt for failing to oust Farley sooner, flayed Tammany corruption, sounded a national note which some observers interpreted as a non-partisan bid by Inquisitor Seabury for the Presidency. "[Tammany] now reaches out," said he, "to use its influence in support of some candidate who will be friendly to it, if indeed, he does not openly wear the stripes of the Tammany Tiger...
...past games the Harvard team has suffered from lack of team coordination to give it scoring drive and thrust. In the game last week with Haverford, which the Harvard five won 32 to 19, the play of the winners was streaky, not a steady, driving style of play. Last Wednesday, when the Harvard five annexed another win, this at the expense of the Brown club, which also went down in a 39 to 19 score, lack of team play was again noticeable...
Died. Adelaide Scarcez Hermann, 79, "Queen of Magic," relict of Alexandre Hermann "The Great," famed conjurer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. As his assistant she frequently evaporated into space, received many a sword thrust, knew how he caught the marked bullets when ten U. S. troopers shot at him. Jesse Lasky got his theatrical start as their manager. After Hermann died on board their silver bath-tubbed private car, purchased from Lily Langtry, she formed her own show, in which once worked Buster Keaton...
...time, disregarding the meanwhile all other mass interest stories that may come along. For over five weeks the Culbertson-Lenz bridge rodeo held its position as the most consistent daily front page story. Then it stopped. But before city editors had the time to cease yawning, they had thrust at them what promises to be one of the most stupendous news story of the year...