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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sian, the interior city in which the "kidnapping" and series of conferences with Communist leaders occurred (TIME, Dec. 21 et seq.), was lavishly hospitable, through its satrap, General Yang Hu-cheng, to arriving Communist leaders of varying importance and to U. S. Counselor of Embassy Willys Ruggles Peck who flew up from Nanking and dined festively. On flying back to Nanking, highly diplomatic Counselor Peck said it was "partly correct" that some 21 U. S. citizens in Sian were being "held as hostages" by the Reds, but that General Yang had been nice about saying he would arrange for them...
...Hastings, Mich., scorning current attempts to pile thousands of matches on top of beer bottles as "mere child's play" (TIME, Dec. 28), Newsboy Elmer ("Monk") White inserted a match in a cork, stood the match up on a table, laid two yardsticks at right angles on the cork, balanced 36 beer bottles on the yardsticks...
Arraigned in Cambridge after ramming a safety island last month (TIME, Dec. 28), Harvard Freshman Glenn Frank Jr., 18, son of the University of Wisconsin's ousted president, was fined $5 for operating an automobile without a license, acquitted of drunken and reckless driving...
...most civilized place in the world, is the most dangerous." Instant later he stepped into the Western Air Express plane for Los Angeles. Month ago another famed couple, the Dame and Seigneur of Sark, just missed a WAE plane in Los Angeles. It has not been seen since (TIME, Dec. 28). Last week the Johnsons, both experienced pilots, gave small thought to this disaster, the first in WAE's ten-year history...
...York's Bowery or Boston's Scollay Square any landlubber could buy papers saying he was an accomplished Able Seaman. Many authorities blamed this situation in part for the Morro Castle disaster. Last June, Congress passed the Copeland Sea Safety Bill, which went into effect Dec. 26. The bill specifies such limitations as an eight-hour, three-watch day, that 65%, of the deck force have A. B. certificates, that 75% be U. S. citizens. With many of the new rules both shipowners and seamen are pleased. With one clause, however, U. S. sailors are vehemently dissatisfied. This...