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...Soong. Great Mr. Soong has been called "the Morgan of China," and it is stockbroker gossip in Shanghai that Brother Soong is not always on the best of terms with his little sister, Mme Chiang. The Soong family tie binds them, and it always will, but sometimes the bonds chafe...
...approach to each other of the two most powerful men in Central Europe today, Hitler and Mussolini. It was notice to Britain, France and the League of Nations that Italy's conquest of Ethiopia must receive official diplomatic recognition; that the "war guilt" under which Germans and Italians chafe must be erased in tribute to their "honor"; and that other wishes of these dictators must be granted-or else...
...Republic, people who talk slowly, prognathous people, nervous people, gruff men. tobacco chewers, Bolshevists, dreamers, but they tend to dislike teetotalers, clergymen, cautious people. Much less neurotic than unhappy wives, they drive wholeheartedly to their own ends, seldom ask or accept advice. They like chess and inventors. They chafe at regimentation, avoid picnics and excursions but go to dances and formal parties, can have fun doing and seeing things alone. "[The divorced woman's] personality," the investigators conclude, "lacks the element of sweet femininity but commands respect for its rugged strength, self-sufficiency and detached tolerance...
...said it "falls on the thrifty and efficient and on the shiftless equally" it is difficult to fix equitable rates on different classes of taxpayers; it falls on consumption and thereby on necessities; it does not distinguish between extractive and mobile industries (West Virginia coal mining companies particularly chafe under...
THIS SIDE IDOLATRY, A Novel Based on the Life of Dickens-C. E. Bechhofer Roberts ("Ephesian")-Bobbs Merrill ($2.50). The faults and foibles of ''the Inimitable" show him less noble, less lovable, more humanly possible. Dickens lovers will chafe, disagree...