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Half dozen years ago China was violently antiChristian. Nearly all the missionaries were turned out, their property seized. The missionaries have now returned. Dr. Jones found that his audiences, from Mukden to Canton, listened "with breathless interest." Says Dr. Jones: "China today is in the moment of the Great Hesitation. She has decided not to be antiChristian, but she has not yet decided to be Christian. . . . The whole situation is awaiting a push-a gentle, loving, Christian push...
Hardworking telegraphers handled the first dispatches from breathless dictation. As the volume mounted Miami's telegraph offices were swamped. United Pressman Frederick Storm sent his story to his New York office by telephone. Associated Press cleared its first bulletin on the story at 9:54; United Press...
...wooden plug and a rope mat in his hand. Seventy feet down he worked, sometimes swinging high in the air, sometimes soused deep in the creamy waves. Five other men were on shorter ladders trying to keep him from being dashed against the side of the ship. After a breathless, drenching hour, the monkey rope was passed through the hole, the plug hammered home. On the inside Staff Captain Giorgio Cavallini and the chief engineer, waist deep in water, sealed the patch with cement mixed-with scrap metal...
...EGYPTIAN CROSS MYSTERY?Ellery Queen?Stokes ($2). One headless corpse after another leads gorily and with breathless speed from West Virginia mountains to Long Island...
...were cheating the investing public." Relief? The Democrats forced the Administration to act by bringing forth the Wagner bill. Economy? Congress cut $334,000,000 from the President's own estimates over the loud protests of his Cabinet. Budget? It is still unbalanced despite the President's "breathless rush to the Capitol to get publicity." Bonus? It was specifically voted down at the Democratic national convention. The Garner "loans-to-all" bill? President Hoover wanted to authorize R. F. C. loans to private industries and named an automobile corporation whose head contributed $25,000 to his campaign fund...