Word: ironclads
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...possible the Chinese people have been kept in ignorance of their Government's capitulation. Over 100 newspapers in North China have been suppressed. Chinese and Japanese censorship remained ironclad. Japanese bombing planes thundered menacingly over Peiping. In Tientsin with feverish activity Japanese architects and landscape gardeners started doing over a onetime Imperial residence as if it might soon be occupied by Japan's puppet Emperor Rang Te of Manchukuo, the onetime authentic Emperor Hsuan Tung...
...Bailey conviction and jail sentence looked ironclad to laymen, for His Grace had signed assurances to the pawnbrokers that he possessed the jewels pawned, which he did not possess. Was that not fraud? Last week when Manchester's case reached the Court of Criminal Appeal, it was loftily held by Their Lordships that there had been no "intent to defraud" and therefore no fraud by Manchester because His Grace had been advised by lawyers that he did possess the jewels. In quashing the jail sentence, England's Lord Chief Justice said that the Duke of Manchester "seemed...
...original concession, Eagle had the right to import supplies duty free. President Assheton was prepared last week to fight off any attempt to collect back duties on those imports. Nonetheless, the decree frightened every foreign businessman in Mexico, for, if the Government can cancel Eagle's ironclad concession, what contracts can it not cancel...
...with students. They are recent graduates of the college and well acquainted with the problems that beset the average man. Yet what student now would consult his dean if he was dissatisfied with his tutor? Or if he felt a complete change of environment was needed, but, owing to ironclad regulations, could not leave his House? This kind of problem, quite apart from scholastic ones, is ruining the careers of many students...
...Yale game, the Varsity went on the gridiron at Springfield with ironclad instructions. The ends were to drive the play in, and the tackles were to break it up before it got under...