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...order thus to exalt the Japanese official whose official responsibility was stained with the blood of Premier Inukai, it was necessary to oust last week the ''Conqueror of Manchuria," taciturn Gen eral Shigeru Honjo (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Orders are orders. Conqueror Honjo packed up on short notice and silently quit Mukden from which he has directed the Japanese occupation of Manchoukuo...
British and Irish opinion was further provoked last week by a tempest in the teapot of Irish Free State Governor Gen eral James McNeill, appointed by George V but obliged to act on the Free State Cabinet's advice. Similarly His Majesty is obliged to act upon the British Cabinet's advice, would never think of doing otherwise. But last week Governor Gen eral James McNeill flatly disregarded the advice of the Free State Cabinet that he keep to himself certain complaints which he desired to make...
...underwritten by the U. S. Government. Much depends upon this public sale which Wall Street envisages as a sort of Liberty Loan drive. President Hoover hopes that plain citizens, rather than banks and trusts, will be heavy investors. To pave the way for this great flotation the Fed eral Reserve has already started pumping money out into the market to create the necessary buying power. Last week in New York it whittled down its buying rates for bankers' acceptances...
Died. Louis Eugene Jeffries, 63, long time (since 1918) vice president & general counsel of Southern Ry. ; at a hearing be fore the Interstate Commerce Commission, in Washington; of a heart attack. Mr. Jeffries was also vice president & gen eral counsel of several other railroads, including Alabama Great Southern and Georgia, Southern & Florida. In Washington's Knickerbocker Theatre disaster (1922) he lost two of his six children...
...almost all States laws have been enacted which make "wilful and malicious" slander a crime. Libel laws cover only written defamation, and few rumors about banks are ever printed. The original bill was drafted in 1907 by .gaunt, white-haired Thomas Bugard Paton, now gen- eral counsel for American Bankers Association. Many mongers have been indicted, but in few cases have banks ever carried the case to a finish because of community sentiment. Monger O'Connell's conviction would be the first in New York State since the passage of the law in 1912. Indicted recently...