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...Tinkler, a former Shanghai police inspector. When 40 Chinese strikebreakers attempted to enter the mill, a fight followed. Suddenly a landing party of Japanese marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested, but Japanese marines batted him over the skull with a gun-butt. What happened next is not clear. Japanese claimed Tinkler threatened them with a revolver, observed that "he came into contact with Japanese bayonets." One thing was clear, however: Tinkler slowly bled from internal hemorrhage during the 20 hours the Japanese kept him incommunicado. That night he was taken...
Kirkland's crew was composed of Larry Butt, stroke; Wally Reed, 7; Fred Armstrong, 6; Sam Goddard, 5; Henry Hoffstot, 4; Lucian Wulsin, 3; Carten Dinwiddie, 2; Dick Brainard, bow; and Jack Reagan...
...main butt of Hocking's attack was Japan. He wondered whether we should "continue to supply her with scientific equipment to ruin her more civilized neighbor...
...Malraux's photograph was not retouched. As any constant smoker could tell, Constant Smoker Malraux was about to light one cigaret from the butt of another...
Harvard's theatrical group is the butt of frequent criticism for its policies in general and its choice of plays in particular, which often seem exotic and unpleasant to undergraduate palates. Criticism, however, arises from a misapprehension of the Society's limitations and functions. Since Boston possesses the second most active theatre in America, the Harvard club finds itself unable to compete with commercial productions. It cannot cater successfully to undergraduates since they will invariably prefer the professional to the amateur "High Tor" when in search of an evening's entertainment. Hence, the Dramatic Society is in a totally different...