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...shrewdly susceptible Japanese long ago learned to like baseball when they watched teams from visiting U. S. battleships play it. Presently they began to play themselves, little pitchers with big ears who paid heed to all developments of baseball in the U. S. In 1914, the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants played an exhibition series in Japan. By 1928, baseball was more popular in Japan than the antique national sport of wrestling. Nowadays Japanese newspapers must report the world's series from the U. S. play by play. Last week a syndicate, backed by Japanese tycoons...
...Board will not authorize the Grain Stabilization Corp. to make stabilization purchases from the 1931 wheat crop. . . . Spring planting of wheat is at hand. Let farmers heed the warning to reduce acreage...
...Coast Guard boat CG-145 fired three blank shells as a warning for the fugitives to stop. The warning was ignored. He then turned his searchlight on his laterally striped Coast Guard ensign and fired three shots across the fleeing power cruiser's bow. Still she paid no heed. The next shot pierced the vessel's pilot house. She hove to. Running alongside, Mate Schmidt found she was the Josephine K. out of Digby, Nova Scotia with 500 cases of liquor aboard. Unconscious in the cabin lay her captain, William P. Cluett, smashed by the Coast Guard shell...
...Root gave the impression that he thought it highly unlikely the U. S. would ever have to exercise its withdrawal privilege because the World Court would always heed a U. S. protest. Said he: "It was the existence of this power of withdrawal that made the agreement possible...
More than one potent California banker bridled angrily, sure that he was the "certain competitor" accused by Mr. Giannini. But well-informed observers paid little heed. Mr. Giannini, 60 and retired, is no longer official spokesman for Transamerica, having been succeeded a year ago by astute Elisha Walker of New York. And while it is true that there has been a large professional short interest in Transamerica stock, Wall Street has not been conscious of any great golden California bear in its menagerie. Embarrassing as it might have been for Transamerica's active management, the Giannini outburst - made...