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...great seaport Shanghai; but he has recently been chosen the civil and military head of the "Nationalist Government of China," a group of politicians and generals with headquarters at Nanking, nearby. Last week this group were preparing to hold, early in January, a plenary session of the Nationalist party congress???to concoct war plans. Since there was danger, however, that some of the minority delegates might slip away, thus making it impossible for the leaders to obtain a quorum, the military police of Nanking were instructed, last week, to detain forcibly any delegate who sought to leave the city...
...Excellency, sleek black President Charles D. B. King of Liberia is referred to by President Coolidge as "my great and good friend" (TIME, Feb. 18, 1924). Last week the great and good President had reason to beam with Afric joy. His Congress???composed exclusively of property-owning negroid Africans?has just voted to extend a helping hand to an Akron rubberman...
...Appointment of a tax commission?perhaps a joint committee of Congress???to devise ways of simplifying and of equalizing the incidence of the tax law and taxes...
...Arma ments Conference to rather more than expected success ? a great achievement whose limitations were not yet perceived. However, the kindhearted, human Harding? cabineted by Secretaries Hughes, Mellon, Hoover, on the one hand; by Fall, Daugherty, Denby, on the other ? had not found all his road smooth. Congress??? the Congress with Senator Knute Nelson, Samuel E. Nicholson, La Baron B. Colt, Frank B. Brandegee, Wm. P. Dillingham? all missing now ? had made him trouble. It he had had to veto ; it had turned down his ship subsidy ; and when he surprised it in its closing hours with...
Then suddenly, in early November, less than a month before the assembling of Congress???the Congress which was to be the test of the new President ?Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, injected a new issue into the contest. He published a plan for tax reduction?not simply an idea, but a plan worked out in all its details (TIME, Nov. 19 et seq.). Tax reduction was the one suit which politicians had not expected to play. They were as startled as auction bridge players hearing a bid of nullo. What surprised them at first was the avidity...