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...escape sterilization provided by law. In California last summer the daughter of the late great Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt failed to have two doctors jailed for spaying her under her mother's orders (TIME, Aug. 31).* Twenty-five other States, two Canadian provinces, one Mexican state, one Swiss canton, and five European countries have laws permitting or ordering the sterilization of criminals and mentally incompetent persons. In general, the effort is to prevent transmission of evil to children and children's children...
...born near Ningpo, small-boned, slender-waisted Dictator Chiang is sometimes called "The Ningpo Napoleon," and his right to dictate to 450 million people is based on the thumping fact that as the leader of the "National People's Party" Revolutionary Army he set out from Canton in 1926 and proceeded to conquer all China. In this adventure the Soviet Government helped with money, munitions, propaganda spread ahead of General Chiang's soldiers by secret agents under Moscow's ace propagandist Michael Borodin, and finally by sending to act as Chiang's Chief-of-Staff...
...outstanding projects for the promotion of international understanding and goodwill is the recent exchange system by which undergraduates in other countries exchange places with students in our universities. Herewith COLLEGIATE DIGEST students photos of U. S. exchange students studying and playing at Lingnan University (Canton, China). These photos were taken by Marvin Lewis, who returned this year to his regular studies at State after a year abroad
Founder of professional football in the U. S. and organizer of both its major leagues is a 60-year-old general practitioner with offices at Broadway & 103rd Street, Manhattan, named Dr. Harry Addison March. Dr. March grew up in Canton, Ohio, played football at Mt. Union College in 1893, became a reporter for the Canton Repository. When William McKinley, a friend of his Army officer father, campaigned for the Presidency, Reporter March joined him, followed him to Washington, landed a job there as $7-a-week assistant to Dramatic Critic Channing Pollock. When McKinley advised him that newspaper reporters were...
Chinese Premier and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, with his usual good fortune, happened to be 750 miles away in Canton and so did not immediately have to do or say anything in rebuttal to the Japanese. "My God, my God - this is terrible!" cried Chinese officials, while Cabinet members piled into planes, flew to Christian Premier Chiang, persuaded him to fly with them back to Nanking, his Capital...