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...incident" started two years ago the people of Japan have been led to believe that the U. S. was, by & large, sympathetic to their aims. The failure of the U. S. to take action after the sinking of the Panay convinced them there was no danger of intervention; the dispatch to Japan this year of the U. S. cruiser Astoria with the ashes of the late Ambassador Hirosi Saito was played up by the Japanese press as a symbol of U. S. friendship and understanding. What sympathy the U. S. had for China was minimized as a vague feeling...
...British Army captain who came to the U. S. to grow beans and ran the St. Louis zoo instead, Jock Bellairs went to work for the old St. Louis Globe in 1890, when he was 21. He left the Globe for the Chronicle, left the Chronicle for the Post-Dispatch, left the Post-Dispatch to return to the Star-Chronicle, which, as the Star-Times, now pays him his salary. Sitting in the press room at headquarters one day in 1898, Reporter Bellairs heard four bombs go off, the Chronicle's signal to the city that the Spanish-American...
...said that 500 to 600 were being delivered monthly, a rate also said to approach German production. Britain is now patrolled, Mr. Thomis reported, by 700 single-seater fighting planes, but the British are still sadly lacking in fast, long-range bombers. Even more optimistic was a special dispatch printed in the American Machinist, which places Britain's present monthly output of warplanes at 700 a month, with an anticipated schedule of 1,000 planes monthly before January...
...many other U. S. newspapers, including the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the San Francisco Chronicle and many a lesser sheet, have borrowed from TIME that the Transcript's new format was scarcely news. But news it is that Publisher Johnson has upped national advertising revenue by 50%, roped 24 new advertisers into long-term contracts...
...most, their memories are longer; the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post carries a department called "150 Years Ago" whose items are generally scarcely more interesting because of their greater antiquity. But in the past few weeks this section has begun to relate some strange doings in France. Thus, in a dispatch dated July 6, 1789: "By intelligence from Paris . . . we learn that peace is far from being established in that Metropolis." Two days later: "Two German regiments were then brought out, which roused the indignation of the national troops, who . . . joined the mob. A dreadful havock was the consequence...