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...alone should soothe howling China and spank obstreperous Japan. In his note to Geneva fortnight ago Stag Stimson firmly put his white-gloved hands behind his back with these words: "It is most desirable that the League in no way relax its vigilance and in no way fail to assert all the pressure and authority within its competence toward regulating the action of China and Japan" (TIME...
...sure, has tried to interfere, but in such a mild fashion that it seems probable that the League is afraid of lowering the prestige of the Liberal-Democratic party which is now in power in Japan by giving too many orders, and thereby not giving Japan enough time to assert its own authority in Manchuria." This party, however, Professor Porter believes, will find it difficult to step the activities of the Japanese soldiers in Manchuria because the military operations there are being conducted by General Tanaka, who is leader of the old militaristic party that was overthrown...
Socialism which has been lurking for some time over England will, in this election, first assert itself. If the Labor party does win, the position of England will become unpredictable. It may resort to the usual radical tactics of conservatism in power, or it may introduce new legislation of a socialistic nature. If the MacDonald faction is victorious, the necessary support will probably be assured for the carrying out of the famous "doctor's mandate...
...Barry charges are puzzling. I was present at a dinner party once where Mr. Irvin S. Cobb ventured to assert that he could write a successful novel in the Harold Bell Wright manner. I heard Mr. Cobb admit later that he had been unable to bring off a single chapter. He found that he could not make his characters talk or deport themselves in the stilted style of the Wright heroes and heroines...
...hotel business last week neither Lucius Boomer nor Oscar was downhearted as the day approached when Banker Charles Hayden would start the register with his name and be given credit card No. 1. Average figures from the depressed hotel industry did not daunt them, for, they were glad to assert, the new Waldorf-Astoria is not an average hotel, cannot be judged by average standards...