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Delay. Correspondent Negley Farson of Chicago's Daily News, who made a special trip from Bombay to riot torn Sholapur (TIME, May 19). complained that officials who claimed they were not censoring his despatches held them up for as much as 12 hours, then suavely explained that this was due to "clerical delay." He also indicated that he could not send the true story of "Bloody Sholapur...
...city. Augustus did so. It grew to have 500,000 population almost as many as before destruction. The Roman massacres of Christians occurred mostly in the 3rd Century A.D. Most famous of the Carthaginian martyr saints were Cyprian, a bishop, and Perpetua, a rich lady who modestly pulled her torn clothes about her sabre-ripped body before she died. The Arabs destroyed Carthage, a waning community...
...City of Cambridge in giving the Cambridge School of the Drama the use of the Rogers Building for the next year is beneficial to the School as well as to the City itself. Before the structure is torn down to be replaced by a fire station, it is fitting that its final use should be one of advantage to both the masters it has served during its lifetime...
...were futures for May delivery (TIME. March 10). Wheat bins were already choked in Chicago and Minneapolis. Delivery date had almost come. Chairman Legge had insisted that Stabilization Corp's acceptance of these deliveries would clear it of any charge of speculation. But Stabilization Corp. was last week torn with uncertainty: should it accept May deliveries at distant points? Should it postpone them until July, risking collision with the incoming 1930 crop...
...Rangers won in the third-place playoff. Ching Johnson, big, bald, hooknosed, hip-swinging defense man of the Rangers, played with a grotesque aluminum protector strapped around his broken jaw. Frank Boucher, star centre, wore a cast of tape and bandage around ligaments he had torn away from his left collarbone shortly before the series. They came from behind in the third period of the deciding game with Ottawa, scored three times in three minutes, won at 5 to 2. Howie Morenz of the Canadiens, the fastest skater in hockey, his round, heavy shoulders hunched toward his stick, his strong...