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...would be best to make no attempt to defend Nanking. Generalissimo Chiang, who during the past seven years has spent millions embellishing his capital and mak-ing it the bright symbol of New China, unhesitatingly ordered Nanking's defense at any cost. "One day we intend to erect upon ruins," clarioned Chiang, "a new national structure which shall not perish...
...clock--The secretaries find themselves touched by the animals' plight. After consultation, they erect a shelter of two umbrellas on the top step to cover the homeless canines, who grin in gratitude...
Sitting on the bench in the stuffy courtroom last week was Judge Patrick Thomas Stone, 48, regular presiding justice for the district. Appointed by President Roosevelt in 1933, he is softspoken, dignified, erect, has a reputation for scrupulous fairness. That he would tolerate no undue fuss and delay became apparent when he succeeded in getting a jury chosen on the first day, instead of allowing the week that had been estimated would be necessary. His sternness was also apparent in the first skirmish of the trial, when Prosecutor Hammond Edward Chaffetz, 30, who has been with the Department of Justice...
...most useful citizen." But down to the end of her long life in 1935 Jane Addams was never so proud of anything as she was of Hull House, the lively, sprawling Chicago settlement which she founded in 1889, where she worked until her death. When Miss Addams, an erect, brown-haired young lady of 29, first appeared with her equally lady-like friend, Ellen Gates Starr, in the big red-brick house that Lawyer Charles J. Hull had surrendered to the encroaching slums, her ribald neighbors threw garbage onto her porch, stones through her windows. In the half-century that...
...Captain van Toch, blue-eyed, beery Dutch mariner, trading for pearls along the coast of Sumatra, made the first discovery: he found, in a little-visited bay on one of the islands, a family of giant newts that walked erect when on land, could be taught to use a pearl-diver's knife and other tools, and could even, with coaching, learn to talk. Finished rubbing his eyes, simple-minded van Toch planned merely to use his pets for pearl-fishing, but he had to get capital to do it, and once capital got involved in the thing there...