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...which Mayors are exposed, the Secretary wrote each & every mayor in Massachusetts urging constant bodyguards for protection from annoyed citizens. James Henry Roberts Cromwell, who once warned, "I can see a lot more peril from the right wingers than from the left'' (TIME, Feb. 27, 1933), in Hongkong honeymooning with his bride, the onetime Doris Duke, declared: "We must be back in the U. S. by October. There are a lot of things needing our attention, particularly the Roosevelt regime. Something has to be done about it and people with money are the only ones who can check...
...Nanking Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Two years ago they blandly deserted once more to their old friends, the Cantonese navy. Last fortnight, completely unable to decide whom to desert to, they steamed out of Canton past the fire of the Cantonese land forts into the neutral British harbor of Hongkong to wait for bids and inspiration...
...Safe in Hongkong, the commanders sat down to wait. What bids came in none but the bidders knew, but one afternoon last week the two old sisters stood out to sea once again...
They had cleared Hongkong's headland when there appeared off their starboard bow none other than the crack cruiser of the loyal Nanking navy, the four-year-old, Japanese-made Ning Hai. Smaller, theoretically slower and equipped with only 5.5-in. guns, the Ning Hai is nevertheless in fighting trim and none of its guns is in pawn. It straightway opened fire on the Hai Shen and Hai Chi. The two old baggages heavily turned tail, labored back into Hongkong Harbor. Soon after, Ning Hai put in too, and its officers variously explained that the shots had been...
...afternoon of March 27 a neat little Chinese student in blue serge suit, brown tie and rimless octagonal spectacles was seen sprinting for dear life across the campus of Northeastern Oklahoma State Teachers College at Tahlequah. Daniel Shaw (born Hing Sieu) had traveled all the way from Hongkong in 1931 to study in the U. S., had wandered through colleges in Walla Walla, Wash.. San Francisco, Lynn, Mass., Cicero, Ill. and Lexington, Ky., trying to make up his mind whether to be a missionary or a diplomat. Finally he ended up in Tahlequah to study American Indian lore...