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...means all, perhaps not a majority, of Kidnapper Chang's troops had gone over to the Red State last week and strong Nanking forces under General Ku Chu-tung were in their second month of creeping approach to Sian, close but hesitant to strike. So much money had already been spent by Nanking in bribes to regain Sian that it seemed a shame to have to spend shot & shell too. In the city was enigmatic General Yang Fu-cheng, erstwhile accomplice of the kidnapper. Nanking continued to figure that Yang had been or could be bought, gradually became alarmed...
Futher research revealed that competition for the University's shortest name, far from being a walk away, is closely contested. Three candidates from China and one from Hawaii seem to be neck and neck at the amazing total of two letters each. They are, respectively, Y. Ku of Peiping, C. Y. Le of Nanking, P. S. Ou of Kwangsu, and H. K. M. Wu of Honolulu. Although there is probably no basis for awarding the palm to any particular one, Mr. P. S. Ou, by the originality of his cognomen, seems to be predominant...
Residents of Atlanta, Ga. a decade and more ago used to wonder what went on inside the handsome, white-columned mansion which stands at Peachtree Road and Wesley Avenue in the city's swankest district. Everyone knew it was the "Imperial Palace" of the Ku Klux Klan and that in it labored Hiram Wesley Evans, the Imperial Wizard and all-American antiPope...
...arthritis. They included analgesics like aspirin, local balms like antiphlogistine, blood builders like ferric ammonium citrate. Some of their names: Joyzone Pain Analgesic, Clear Water Joint Ease, Rising Mist, Wizard Balm, U-Rub-It, Rivet Cold Breaker, Pain Knocker, Oil-O-Youth, Root-Tea-Na-Salve, Ru-Ma-Ku...
Launching into a defensive counterattack, Chairman Hamilton declared that in 1924, when Democrats dodged the Ku Klux Klan issue at their National Convention, Alf Landon had supported William Allen White's anti-Klan candidacy for Governor of Kansas, and he himself had run for the State Legislature on an anti-Klan ticket. Elected Republican Floor Leader of the House, said he, he had fought and defeated a bill legalizing the Klan. In 1926 he was elected Speaker of the House over Klan opposition. "In 1928 I ran for Governor. Although the Klan had practically passed out of existence, there...