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During the World War no correspondent would have dreamed of handing to a French or German censor a dispatch containing such obvious dynamite, however correct, and the placid Chinese censor as a matter of fact indulged Chicago's Daily News to the extent of passing this: "Only one thing can save the Chinese Army now, this correspondent learns-continued torrential rains for three days." What made all this timely last week was that Japanese forces were at the moment approaching the great Shantung city of Tsingtao and in it Chinese looters, firebugs, panic-stricken soldiers and gangsters were creating...
Last week at Hankow, to which Chinese Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went from Nanking, the Chinese authorities permitted United Press's Jack Belden to send a dispatch with this lead: "The Chinese Communist Party, already dominant in the coalition which forms the present Central Chinese Government, tonight extended its control to three more of the nation's defense areas." Mr. Belden went on to record "a general tendency which would give officials of the former Chinese Soviet Government . . . domination of almost the entire conduct of the struggle'' of China v. Japan. This was saying...
While Congress did precious little (see col. 2). while many another member of his Administration grew jittery about depression, the President exhibited his peculiar capacity for being comforted by crises. At press conference Correspondent Raymond ("Pete") Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked what the President meant to do about recession now that it was growing worse. Said the President, "It is an assumption. Pete, don't tie my hands...
...employe for many years in the Carnegie Steel mills in Duquesne. Leaving public school at 14, Cadman took up music in earnest, and 14 years later supported himself in Pittsburgh by playing the organ and teaching the piano. After two years as music critic of the Pittsburgh Dispatch he spent a short time studying in Austria...
...Yale's Frank-captained eleven was headed for the Rose Bowl until they were beaten by Harvard, according to a dispatch printed in the Los Angeles Times...