Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scrutinizing with legal detachment the developments of the Sino-Japanese crisis, President Lowell, in Foreign Affairs, reenforces his advocacy of an economic boycott by a thoughtful analysis of the relations of the League of Nations and the United States to the affair. Although its chronological summary of the diplomacy involved and its pessimistic prophesy for the future degeneration of the League are careful and thorough, the article's greatest importance lies in a penetrating criticism of the legal aspects of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and a presagement of international instability as a consequence of Secretary Stimson's January 7 letter...
...Peiping sent sympathy. Episcopal Bishop Manning of New York ordered his flock to pray for the infant's safe return. School children and 500,000 Companions of the Forest of America also prayed, as did Philadelphia Lutherans, New Jersey Methodists. Crowds in Buenos Aires watched bulletins, took the whole affair for a hoax the first day. Herbert Hoover spurred Government sleuths from a Cabinet meeting. Mrs. Hoover, cruising in Florida, sent ashore for news. In Chicago Col. Robert Isham Randolph of the "Secret Six" warned the nation again about the rich, swift-growing racket of abduction for extortion, helped circulate...
About 18 men will take part in the court-martial, which has not been put on for two years. The case in point concerns an enlisted man accused of larceny, and the whole affair is intended to familiarize Military Science students with such proceedings. Colonel W. S. Sturgill will officiate, although the actual trial is entirely in the hands of the students...
...conviction despite the testimony of an eye witness who swore that he never took his eye off the accused man from the moment of the crime until the police came in answer to his telephone call. This crime was committed because of Gallo's jealousy over Fantasia's affair with the Romano woman whom police have never been able to trace since her disappearance after the former's acquittal and prompt departure to Italy. With the long period of time that has elapsed since the commission of the crime, prosecution of the accused is accordingly more difficult...
...Cobb, was found unconscious in the kitchen with blood-stains on her dress. Reconstructing the crime, however, Dr. Magrath found that in order to inflict such a wound, the gun must have been jammed against the man's jaw, the gun butt resting on the cellar floor. The whole affair must have taken place in the dark, the murderer probably kneeling on the floor. Such a situation was obviously absurd and when bits of shot were found in the ceiling of the cellar in a place indicating that the gun was fired at an angle of only ten degrees away...