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...Chahar Province, Inner Mongolia. Mayor Chou Ta-wen of Peiping ordered anti-aircraft guns mounted at 20 points round the old city wall. Not that he could keep Japanese troops out, but just to make things more uncomfortable for them. Bets increased that the Heaven-Sent Army will set hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi on the dragon throne of the old Forbidden City before summer. Peiping universities packed up their libraries and laboratory equipment, prepared to ship them to Shanghai...
...certain to be one of the busiest Vatican functionaries during the Holy Year, he would have no time for a cardinal's duties. Monsignor Caccia Dominioni consulted a picture postcard, directed workmen to a spot on the wall. With chisels and mallets they chipped away plaster. Presently a hollow was discovered, containing a bronze casket and a cylinder. These Monsignor Caccia Dominioni removed. The prelates departed, officially sure that the Holy Door of St. Peter's, walled up at the end of the 1925 Holy Year and containing mementoes of it, had not been disturbed...
...caucus, there were three outstanding candidates for the Speakership vacated by John Nance Garner. Big, white-mopped Representative Rainey, 72, considered himself "in line" for the job because he had been majority floor leader in the 72nd House (TIME, Dec. 19). Tennessee's Joseph Wellington Byrns, 63, lank, hollow-eyed chairman of the Appropriations Committee, was put forward as a border compromise between North and South. Alabama's John McDuffie, 49, popular party "whip" and loyal Garner friend, was the conservative South's man to perpetuate the outgoing Speaker's regime...
...President Hoover last week appointed Walter Hughes Newton, his political secretary, to be a U. S. District judge in Minnesota. It was a hollow honor; the Senate refuses to confirm any Hoover nominations...
...very last, the Japanese hoped they could buy Jehol's Tang. Finally Japan's puppet Regent of Manchukuo, hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi, denounced Tang as a "renegade," took away his empty title "Vice Chairman of the Privy Council of Manchukuo" and bestowed on the Japanese-Manchukuo forces advancing upon Jehol a splendidly euphemistic name: The Jehol Pacification Expeditionary Forces...