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Presently out of the northern sky scudded fleets of Nanking battle planes, nearly all of U. S. make. They bombed and thoroughly machine-gunned Foochow and Changchow 32 mi. east of Amoy. Thrice they returned to deal more death. In vain the Fukien rebel leader, Eugene Chen, stormed: "Those planes were bought by public subscription for defense against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek [Nanking's Generalissimo] didn't have nerve enough to use them against the Japanese. Oh no! But he does not hesitate to use them to massacre his own countrymen...
...lost his job and was refused relief because he was a U. S. citizen. In desperation he stole some gasoline, was sentenced to jail and deported. Mary could not go with him because she had once been in a reformatory, was an undesirable alien. Last November John tried in vain to persuade the Labor Department to let Mary cross the border for Thanksgiving. Said he last week: "I guess there is nothing more we can do. I'll have to go home...
...into the holes, after which Royalty and Priest drank the wine and kissed each other. According to Jugoslav Orthodox custom, Guests Boris and loanna thus became figuratively "of the same family" with Host Alexander and Hostess Marie. Too scandalized to protest was the Vatican, which protested vigorously but in vain when Rome's Catholic loanna was remarried in Sofia by an Orthodox priest and her first-born child was baptized Orthodox (TIME...
Last week Messrs. Morgenthau, Bailie and Jones varied their daily routine, tried in vain to discover where the leak might be. Whether or not their dismay at the undiscovered leak was responsible, they kept the RFC gold price at $34.01 for nine successive business days, longer than the price has stayed unchanged at any time since it was first announced. On the theory that the price could not be discovered by wire tapping no Secret Service men were called upon. Earle Bailie was given the job of playing amateur detective...
...simple life, and Munday has hopes of Ayton's settling down. But when he discovers that Ayton has seduced the farmer's wife, sold Munday's piano and gone off to Italy on the proceeds with the three Lesbians, Munday realizes that his hopes were in vain...