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...Harmodio Arias' gift to Mrs. Hull when the Santa reached Panama City. In the Zone, one of the most heavily fortified districts in the world, Secretary Hull chose to talk about disarmament: "We cannot go too far or do too much in carrying this gospel to the uttermost parts of our lands. Slaughter by the outlawed means of armed conflict would be nothing less than murder and assassination...
...From the uttermost reaches of a front box, it was recently our privilege to see Mr. Courtney Burr's comedy, "Sailor, Beware." Our disappointment was great at finding that it was not a musical, an illusion we had carried about New York literally for months. It certainly should have been a musical: it has just the right sort of plot, and even in the second act it is hard not to expect a chorus to come tripping on any moment, faces and limbs aglow with professional cheer. Our sense of hearing, dulled by this disappointment, and by the discovery that...
When Japan was bombarding Shanghai last year the Chinese Government promised to issue no more bonds for three years, if China's bankers would subscribe their uttermost then. Subscribe they did. Last week they looked to Dr. Soong to make the Government keep its promise. Abruptly the promise was knocked galley-east when Premier Wang Ching-wei announced that the Government will issue $100.000,000 of Treasury notes "repayable in 150 monthly payments''-i.e. long-term securities, virtually bonds which will not be fully paid off for twelve long years...
...grey drizzle made the court slippery and the bad footing seemed to bother Crawford. It did not bother Vines. After a week of good but not brilliant tennis, he suddenly found his game. His backhand, weak the day before, was suddenly a magnificent offensive stroke. His drives lashed the uttermost corners of Crawford's back court. Crawford said afterward that Vines's first serve "seemed to hit the court the same instant it left the racket." Vines followed it to the net and smashed Crawford's returns so hard that the ball kicked up tufts of grass...
...Shanghai, battles went on. It was force to the uttermost, war to the Death...