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...little paragraph in U. S. newspapers last week was as significant to students of China as anything that has happened in Manchuria or Shanghai: the 30th and 31st Divisions of Marshal Chiang Kaishek's Nationalist Army were defeated by Communist troops in upper Yangtze Valley and prudently deserted to the Communist side...
Died. James Francis Burke, 64, general counsel of the Republican National Committee, onetime (1905-15) U. S. Representative from the 31st Pennsylvania District (Pittsburgh), close friend and adviser of President Hoover; of coronary thrombosis following dilation of the heart; in Garfield Hospital, Washington, whither he was sent by Dr. Joel Thompson Boone after his illness during a White House conference had become apparent to President Hoover. Counsel Burke was elected secretary of the Republican National Committee in 1892 at 25, youngest man ever to hold the post...
...arrival in Ireland, although some authorities (including the Catholic Encyclopedia) give 433 as the date. In Saul the old sod was turned and blessed for a mighty statue and altar to St. Patrick. Then began preparations for more extensive doings. Planned long ago for June 1932 was the 31st International Eucharistic Congress of the Roman Catholic Church. Like monster church picnics, these gatherings are designed to promote religious solidarity, give the faithful an outing on a large scale. Eucharistic Congresses have been held throughout France and Belgium, in Rome, Metz, Amsterdam, London, Fribourg, Jerusalem, Cologne, Malta, Montreal, Madrid, Vienna, Chicago...
Thus Minister Johnson turned the other cheek to 60 Japanese bluejackets who the night previous had climbed the high, spiked gate of the International Settlement near Soochow Creek and rushed with fixed bayonets upon a Chinese crowd technically under the protection of the 31st U. S. Infantry. Lunging at these Chinese civilians the Japanese bluejackets wounded ten with bayonet thrusts, knocked down eleven more with blows from their rifle butts and climbed back over the high, spiked gate as the 31st U. S. Infantry rushed upon the scene. Tersely a Japanese spokesman explained that the bluejackets had acted to "punish...
...Methodist bishops present, who had helped to write the episcopal address which Boston's Bishop William Franklin Anderson was delivering, beamed in their chairs upon the platform. The 800-odd delegates and some 1,500 of their friends who crowded Atlantic City's Municipal Auditorium for the 31st quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church rose to their feet and cheered. It sounded like the old days when temperance cartoons depicted "the brewer's big horses" trampling down poor children, and the Saloon as a burly ogre digging graves for mankind, pointing with pride to poorhouses...