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Ellery Walter, young (25), one-legged and cheerful, attended the University of Washington, then set out to see the world. Part of his travels he has told about in The World on One Leg. In High Hats and Low Bows he recites with cheerful candor the high spots of a celebrity-hunting expedition during a summer in Europe...
President Cornish, noted for honest statements, candor, added that the company's business had been bad, showed no signs of improvement. That any dividend at all can be paid, he said, was because of the policy adopted in 1916 when the company resolved "to keep itself financially strong until the difficulties and losses, if any. attending the readjustment to normal conditions after the War are more definitely known." In the same spirit, he told shareholders last spring that if the $5 rate should have to be reduced "then all the work and planning of your management will have been...
...Nanking is Incapable." Count Yasuya Uchida, president of the Japanese-owned & policed South Manchuria Railway which is the steel core of all the trouble, told correspondents last week with brutal candor exactly what Japan's military leaders in Manchuria have done and propose...
...Secretary of State William Richards Castle kept them posted on the diplomatic negotiations which led up to the acceptance of President Hoover's debt moratorium. Last week the State Department's Correspondents' Association presented him with a silver cigaret box to show their appreciation of his candor. Declared Mr. Castle gratefully...
China and the world awoke last week to the fact that war has been waging in serious proportions throughout Kiangsi Province these many months past. Able Finance Minister T. V. Soong of the Nationalist Government issued a statement confessing that "the Government has been entirely lacking in candor" regarding this war, but that now "the time has come to be frank with the people so that the Red danger will be realized." President Chiang Kai-shek himself took charge of the Kiangsi forces...