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...baseball team of the 4th Regiment of the U. S. Marine Corps, stationed at Shanghai: the annual July 4 game against the Shanghai Amateur Baseball Club: 12 to 4. The Amateur Baseball Club, oldest U. S. organization in Shanghai, started in 1872. Composed originally of derelict sailors and bartenders, it played frequently against the Presbyterian Mission at Sunkiangfu, an all-Chinese team captained by onetime Premier Tong Shao...
daemia erred when it accepted New Haven chitchat, attributed "The Long, Long Derelict; to the late Edward J. Moriarty, New Haven barkeep (TIME, March...
...appointee to the Geneva disarmament conference was Norman H. Davis, onetime Undersecretary of State. His appointment fills the delegation. ¶ To the Congress which returned last week from its vacation. President Hoover addressed a special message, reiterating his Relief program, urging its speedy enactment. Said he: "I would be derelict in my duty if I did not inform the Congress of the need for action at its earliest possible moment...
With his friend Will Rogers, Father Flanagan called on the Governor, who had previously declared that "the chief executive would be derelict in his duty if he undertook to transfer his responsibilities to an agency in another State." But the additional pressure of Washington's united Press, Pulpit and American Legion made Father Flanagan hopeful of success...
Flaying Mr. Henderson's recently announced Labor platform (TIME, Oct. 19) as "the most fantastic and impractical ever," Slasher Snowden attacked & summarized it thus: "All derelict industries are to.be taken over by the state and the taxpayers are to shoulder the losses. Banks and financial houses are to be placed under national ownership and control. Your investments are to be ordered by some board, and your foreign investments are to be mobilized to finance this madcap policy. This is not Socialism. It is Bolshevism...