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Same day Generalissimo Chiang's bland, stogie-smoking brother-in-law by marriage, Dr. H. H. Kung, 75th lineal descendant of Confucius, returned to Nanking from a haggling expedition in North China. Hopping by airplane from general to general Dr. Kung had apparently cut a swath of bribery broader and more sweeping than any in recent Chinese annals. "I have had unqualified success," he beamed, "in cementing the political bonds of Northern leaders with Nanking...
...Asia almost continuously ever since. Expert hydrographer and cartographer, he carries only the simplest instruments on his expeditions, depends largely on the measured stride of his riding camel for computing distances. For Chicago's Century of Progress he directed the reproduction of Jehol's "Golden Pavilion." Short, bland, unmarried and 69, Explorer Hedin is now completing a railroad survey for China's Nanking Government. Though A Conquest of Tibet had to be translated, it has not yet been published in any other country than the U. S. Other books: Adventures in Tibet, My Life as an Explorer...
...London worried Ambassador Davis went around to ask bland, poker-faced Japanese Ambassador Tsune Matsudaira just what Japan now wants. She is known to want naval parity with Britain and the U. S. but her want thus far has been made known by Tokyo statesmen in statements provokingly unofficial. To provoke Mr. Davis is impossible. He smiled understanding as Ambassador Matsudaira professed total, official ignorance...
...Manhattan, Will Hays confirmed the Archbishop's announcement. A Presbyterian elder whose solid connections helped get him his job. Tsar Hays has long mollified church people and women's clubs with bland promises of reform...
...Braggiotti '35, Robert S. Brookings, 2nd '35, and John Dorman '36 were elected by members of Winthrop House on Wednesday and Thursday to fill the three vacancies on the House committee, it was announced last night by John M. Lockwood '34, chairman. The other nominees were: Juniors: Frank P. Bland, Irving S. Chenoweth, Stanley G. Kellogg, and James A. Wolff; Sophomores, Thomas A. Bittenbender, William W. Gallagher, Jr., Benjamin H. Hallowell, August C. Helmholtz, 2nd, and John R. Pappenheimer...