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...before adjournment when the pension fight was at its hottest & heaviest in the Senate, Virginia's peppery little Carter Glass, his nerves rubbed raw with the strain of the session, uprose to flay greedy veterans. From the corner of his mouth he snarled...
Though the world was loudly promised that Japan's invasion of Jehol would stop at the Great Wall of China, Japanese troops found themselves occupying about 1,000 sq. mi. of Chinese territory inside the Wall last week, firing at fleeing Chinese only 100 mi. from Tientsin. Heaviest fighting took place at Leng Pass 50 miles inland from Shanhaikwan. Because Japanese citizens and taxpayers were grimly considering the first official casualty lists of the Jehol campaign (1,479 Japanese soldiers killed, 3,468 wounded), Japanese staff officers moved more prudently. Fifty field guns and 30 military planes pounded...
Railroads. Four plans to push the Government even further into the railroad business than it already is were spread before President Roosevelt at a White House conference last week. Most drastic and most publicized was a plan presented by Boston's crusty old Frederick Henry Prince, whose heaviest investments are in railroads and whose particular aversion is professors in Government (TIME...
...Roxy contained 3,700 seats (compared to 'the Music Hall's 6,200), the heaviest and largest chandelier in the world (compared to the Music Hall's two longest), an auditorium designed in chaste taste to resemble the inside of a hatbox; a typical Roxy stage show, with a fan dance by Roxyettes...
Never a mincer of words, he cheerfully said: "It means that our line is cut in two during the period of our heaviest movement of fruit. According to estimates we receive it will take about two weeks to re-open that section. Estimates on the cost run around $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. But that is not so important as the revenue that will be missed...