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...only paper to print, on its first page and in full, the following Monday morning, a prolix and tedious address by Mr. Young at a Manhattan church on Sunday night. Last week the Herald Tribune, unsuspicious, printed the Associated Press scoop, correcting it next day with an exclusive despatch from the very fountain head of second Dawes Committee sure-dope...
...best time in the King's day," said an unofficial despatch from London, "is usually just after six in the evening. In the best periods the King realizes his weakness and insists on being treated as an extreme invalid. In his other moods, however, he does not recognize the situation and expects to be treated as a well person, which increases the difficulties of the doctors and nurses...
...single army in recent Mexican history ?were rumbling out of Mexico City in freight cars, led by ex-President General Plutarco Elias Calles, to do battle with the rebels in Durango, Chihuahua and Sonora. As bombing planes roared into the zenith, as President Herbert Clark Hoover hastened the despatch of 10,000 Enfield rifles and multitudinous rounds of ammunition to the Mexican government, as despatches announced that poison gas would be used, God Mexitl must have ruefully reflected that his own symbolic arms are a shield made of reeds tufted with eagle's down, and a handful of spears...
...York Times correspondent filed this cryptic despatch: "An aviation authority who prefers not to be quoted says there are 80 first-class Mexican pilots, who, with the use of as many planes, could soon end the rebellion...
...Japan, most Japanese wear cotton. The kimonos of the lower classes are cotton, so are their underclothes, socks. In years gone by, when a Japanese wore holes in his socks or damaged his kimono irretrievably, he simply threw it away. Not so now, said a last week's despatch from the U. S. Department of Commerce. In 1923 Japan sent to the U. S. 4,432,000 pounds of discarded kimonos, underclothes, trousers, and so forth, to be reclaimed, and the Japanese ragbag has grown to such colossal proportions that in the first ten months...