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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in several hundred years, local Ipswich members of the bar were denied free access to the courtroom and the Mayor, who is himself an Ipswich magistrate, was admitted only after arguing with his own police. In English divorce proceedings the wife, when examined by the Court, must stand in the witness box, which has no chair. Last week matters had been so arranged that all courtroom gallery seats faced by Mrs. Simpson from the box were vacant. Tickets were issued only for a few seats to which her back was turned...
...Japan, Generalissimo Chiang did not waver in his policy of always turning the Christian other cheek. He even had Chinese police beat up and jail hundreds of Chinese students when they demonstrated in Peiping, Shanghai and Tientsin against Japan. At Tokyo's behest, Nanking has dissolved scores of local offices of the Kuomintang, which is the political party of the Generalissimo himself, the only party he permits to exist in China. Anti-Japanese passages have been expunged by Chinese historians from many Chinese schoolbooks on orders from Japan, and hard to find even a few weeks...
They retreated gradually inland and have been pursued by the Dictator's forces hither and thither for approximately 2,000 miles through seven provinces ending with Kansu where they now are, still unconquered. In many of these provinces the original local Chinese authorities were more or less at outs with Dictator Chiang, but, after they had been attacked by the Red armies and either badly frightened or overcome, they greeted the arrival of the Generalissimo's troops with unwonted enthusiasm...
...celebration. The stream of Puritan propaganda from Professor Morison's able pen aroused as much undergraduate indignation about Mistress Eaton's ale and hasty pudding scandals as the student body normal expresses in a Rinehart riot. Rays of past glory were even reflected in the window of a local purveyor, who offered a Tercentenary Cocktail to warm the cockles of your heart after the chilling effects of New England rain in the Tercentenary Theatre. But ghosts from distant times were not the only ones to stalk the stage; the contributions of Eliot and Lowell were in the foreground...
Today is comparatively uneventful in point of local soccer interest. With no intercollegiate opponent on its schedule the Varsity plays the Swedish Americans here, while the Freshman go to Worcester Academy in the annual home and home series between the two teams...