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Birthdays. William II, onetime German Emperor, his 82nd, in excellent health but still planted at Doom, Holland. Said he: "Old trees cannot be transplanted." Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois and G. O. Patriarch, his 80th, in Oregon, Ill. Said he: "I think we are becoming altogether too pessimistic. I look forward with faith and hope...
...handle the heaviest bombers, were being constructed. It was an open secret that once her northern base was completed, Japan intended to move south, probably in March or April. Japanese officers and merchants were securing houses in Hanoï on three-year leases "in the name of the Emperor" and forbidding Frenchmen to use the sidewalk in front of them. Even as Indo-China fought Thailand, Japanese commercial planes flew from Saïgon to Bangkok carrying agents and supplies. The Japanese fifth column which had worked effectively in the north had moved...
...Emperor he became as well...
...really return to private control. Probably 1937 was its last chance to do that. When it left court jurisdiction last week, it entered that of Emperor Jesse Jones...
...Emperor Jones is no tyrant. Mr. Shanks's principals got a fair shake too: for each old $1,000 bond, a $500 general mortgage bond, $500 in new Class A stock, four shares of common and $35 in cash (as back interest on each new $1,000 bond). Mr. Steere's stockholders of course got nothing, but since C. & O. owned other C. & E. I. securities, it will wind up with 12% of the new voting stock (16% if its bonds are converted)-the largest single voting block. For continuity's sake the reorganizers also left Charles...