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...resolved to continue the so-called "Stimson Doctrine" of nonrecognition of Manchukuo; and 2) Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, was said to have cabled warnings that if the League fails to deal with Japan, China may declare in desperation a boycott so sweeping as to choke off not only Japanese but also other foreign exports to China...
...undivulged dictatorial plan in his battered head and his right ear tilted up as if listening to the guiding voice of the Angel Gabriel, he calls his Cabinet, starts weeding out unwilling tools. Unlike other dictators he resolutely refuses to use Federal troops for civil duty, to choke off a press which unanimously howls against him. When an ousted Secretary of War leagues with a third-rate Vice President to have him committed to an insane asylum, he explodes the conspiracy by broadcasting its details. Secretly he sponsors an incendiary cinema, propaganda picturing the Chicago massacre, deliberately designed to bring...
When Chicago gave the world the phrase "public enemy," gangsters used to ride around in Rolls-Royces. They carried rolls of bills big enough to choke a judge and got buried in $10,000 caskets, with effigies of themselves done in flowers to follow the hearse. Bootlegging, chief source of gangdom's income, was a national business of the first magnitude. Like other businesses, bootlegging has felt the pinch...
...what free-wheeling is. They still think one has to press a pedal to start the engine and then another when shifting gears. They think shifting gears silently is an accomplishment. They do not mind it when the car roars in second or reverse. They fiddle instinctively with the choke when the motor splutters. They would be startled to see a dashboard with no choke...
...Soto has an automatic choke and retains the oval-shaped radiator which Byron P. Foy first saw on a racing car. The lady on the radiator-cap wears fewer drapes than during...