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...northernmost island of Japan, the Soviet provision ship Refrigerator No, 1 was halted by the Japanese, her captain and crew thrown into jail. Japanese authorities questioned their Red captives about the number and equipment of Soviet armed forces facing Manchukuo. To force answers they used the dread Oriental bastinado, beat the soles of the Reds with thin strips of bamboo. On top of this ancient torture, a favorite in China for thousands of years, the Japanese produced electric wires, sparked and shocked the Russians' bleeding soles...
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, hero or marplot* is conspicuous as the only Senator who, already famed, has increased his fame during the 69th Congress. He, a sizzling meteor among orators, a bastinado of the present trend of U. S. politics, has seized the role of Senator inquisitor, which Borah of Idaho, Walsh of Montana and the late LaFollette of Wisconsin once held. Everyone knows how Senator Reed revealed several millions in certified slush in Pennsylvania and Illinois (TIME, May 31, et seq.) ; how he dragged the Anti-Saloon League into the investigations and gave it its first important...
This steelyeyed, iron-jawed playboy of the Senate, this Voltaire-tongued bastinado of the uplifters, this Rabelais-reading Jeffersonian -this James A. Reed of Missouri-what a sizzling presidential campaign he would hammer out! From stump to stump across the land, he would blast the imbecilities of the age. Sometimes his tongue would snarl, sometimes it would ripple with a silvery metaphor; then people would know why the Senate galleries were filled when "Jim" Reed spoke...
...having them on the floor when every important vote is taken. Representative William A. Oldfield, of Arkansas, just entering upon his 16th year in the House, is whip for the Democrats. The feat for which the National Committee commended him proved him to be a very knout and bastinado. In the voting on the tax reduction bill in the House, the Democrats succeeded in substituting the Garner surtax rates for those of the Mellon plan. Later the Garner rates were stricken out (when the Republican insurgents went back to their party), but at the high tide of Democratic success, Whip...