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...that no amount of secrecy on the part of Press or Police could return the child alive to its parents, the lid of caution abruptly blew off the case. For the first time pictures of the nursery were published. And the text of the original ransom note, which newspapers had withheld since the case entered its second day lest negotiations for the child's return be jeopardized, was unofficially made public...
...iron party discipline has limited all Communists?including the Dictator?to a salary of $1,800 per year. In proposing to jack this up to $5,400 Mr. Stalin naturally had to act with caution. The change was only being "considered," ran the public announcement last week, but such public "consideration" is the Dictator's mode of feeling his way, is usually followed by action...
...Kastle's coping is the English nation, which to the Professor's amazement seems always able to addle through. In a sketch of Henry Ford, Author Pitkin disclaims ambition to write the Ford biography-"the job would be too dull for us." Walt Whitman he calls a caution, but is forced to admit, "Not until introverts no longer read and write shall we be rid of the Steer that lived on Leaves of Grass." In spite of all, Author Pitkin remains incorrigibly optimistic. With not unheard-of scientific naivete he hopes to save mankind by mechanization of many...
...powers. He is taken up as a curiosity by Millionaire Bassan, falls in love with vampirish Fedora, prophesies her husband's death. Bassan dies, not according to prophetic schedule, but largely because of Fedora's diablerie, ahead of time. Prophet Trux, for vanity's sake and feline Fedora, for caution's, hide the discrepancy. On the strength of their mutual deceit they become lovers...
...Japanese have already strained the Empire's fiscal resources by pouring $35,000,000 into the Shanghai expedition alone. Last week big Japanese bankers called Japanese War Minister Lieut.-General Araki on the carpet and cautioned him as only big bankers can caution. The United Press got past the Japanese Government censor a dispatch intimating that Prince Saionji, the Elder Statesman upon whose advice the Emperor acts, was opposed to the Shanghai drive. Attitudes. Most powerful forces were therefore working inside Japan for peace, but not unimportant were the attitudes of the Great Powers. The U. S. Government...