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Spurred, Tokyo's Central Police Station assigned a squad of detectives to the case. Last week the mystery was solved. Detective Tokuda of the Central Office discovered a gold ring and wrist watch belonging to one of the robbed houses in a pawn shop. Quickly he summoned a cordon of police, rushed at dawn into the home of Toyoshi Nakamura, a young chauffeur. Faced by scowling gendarmerie, Chauffeur Nakamura confessed all. His duties kept him busy from 5 p. m. until dawn, he said. He had robbed the geisha houses for money with which to attend dance halls...
...forbidding cordon of assistant managers which surround the football practice field has long been a source of irritation to undergraduates and alumni alike. The splendid isolation in which the football men work out prevents any free and easy familiarity with the team and rightly or wrongly heightens the atmosphere of cold commercialism which hangs always so heavily over the gridiron. One can't even drop in to see how one's roommate is coming along, and a graduate in Cambridge for a day or two has as little chance of seeing how one of the boys from home looks...
England is nicer in lots of ways than Mexico, so much nicer that last week the civilian leader of the latest Mexican Revolution, Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela, must have devoutly wished himself back at the Court of St. James's, strutting again in silk knee breeches with a cordon across his chest as Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary. Instead he was desperately striving in the state of Sonora, first to bolster up civilian support for the army of his chief-of-staff, General Gonzalo Escobar, and second with the forlorn project of despatching to President Herbert Hoover a request...
Since His Majesty is the 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Mikami, such appeals are regarded as a deadly sacrilege and sin. Nonetheless last week, when Emperor Hirohito rode out to open Parliament, a burly farmer from Saitama Province burst through the cordon of Imperial police and groveled sinfully before the Son of Heaven...
Arrangements for the conference are being completed by a committee headed by Cordon Huggins '29, and including as its members Carlton. G. H. Norris '29, and R. G. West...