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Good as goldmines are the warm oases of chill, bleak, mountainous Jehol, the buffer province between "China Proper" and "Manchuria Proper." Spouting hot springs make the oases ideal for growing opium. Opium has made vastly rich the Governor of Jehol, walrus-mustached War Lord Tang Yulin. Last week Tang's strapping big North Chinese soldiers on their small, shaggy Mongolian ponies, jogged down precipitous mountain passes to pot shot at the mighty clanking War Machine of Imperial Japan as it debouched from the railway...
...power, pressing creditors. President James Malcolm Kurn was thereupon appointed receiver for the system, biggest yet to fall this Depression and third in the past year to meet its receivership in St. Louis. There was no consternation in railroad circles at this turnabout. For the receivership is both a buffer against further Frisco disaster and a doorway to future success. Other receivership suits were pending against the Frisco last week and this friendly Federal action lessened the possibility of separate receivers in several States operating at chaotic cross purposes. But complications threatened when the attorneys who had been seeking receivership...
Mournfully over a long drink Prince Svasti said: "The King agreed to the present temporary constitution, which makes him a puppet, solely to prevent bloodshed. We are a buffer state between French Indo-China and British Burma. Civil war in Siam would mean that both the French and English would intervene, ostensibly to protect their nationals. That would be the end of Siam...
...grid clashes announced today, Bates and New Hampshire introduce the season. Then follow five games before the Yale clash. Of the five, Holy Cross, Army, Dartmouth, and Brown appear on next year's list. Lehigh, which played a game here four years ago, is to serve as a buffer between the Dartmouth and Army weekends...
...financing itself through the Depression. Undersecretary Mills, because of his knowledge of the money market, managed virtually single-handed the two big bond issues put out this year. With his Congressional contacts, he replaces Secretary Mellon before House and Senate committees, hurries in to serve as a quick-witted buffer when the Press starts to press the shy old gentleman too hard...