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...have recently described many other activities that should not be tolerated in our democracy-price rigging, unfair competition directed against the little man, and monopolistic practices of many kinds. . . . Give to me and give to your Govern-ment the credit for a definite intention to eradicate them. Give to me and give to your Government the credit for believing that in so doing we are helping and not hurting the overwhelming majority of businessmen and industrialists in the United States...
...sense of humor, that leading Chinese characteristic, somewhat lightened the tragedy of flight from the Capital last week. Discharged but grinning Govern-ment clerks called to each other such jokes as "See you in Sinkiang!"-thus jocularly implying that the Government may ultimately flee 2,000 miles to remote Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan...
...principle" all the Government's rights in Shanghai and would prevent any part of the metropolis' vast customs revenues from reaching Generalissimo Chiang. Chinese cable censorship at Shanghai was abolished, the Japanese not imposing this week censorship of their own. Expulsion of Chinese officials from Shanghai Govern-ment buildings was decreed. Chinese and foreigners alike were sternly warned by Japanese authorities to eschew anti-Jap-anese and pro-Communist activities of every sort...
...which replaced him. Its contents, largely suppressed by the Leftist Government's cable censors last month, packed all the more punch because Socialist Baron had come out to report last week that in Leftist Spain there is much "dissatisfaction with forcing Francisco Largo Caballero out of the Govern-ment last May. He is by far the most popular political leader among the Spanish masses, and they resent the Communist campaign against...
...traditional Rus-sian custom among friends and that it made them blood brothers. After this ceremony the General made a flowery talk proclaiming his friendship for the U. S. and the American people, and urging us as representatives of American finance to tell the U. S. Govern-ment when we returned home about his army's need for American money and munitions. The banquet closed with all of the Americans filing past General Semenov who embraced each American and planted a bushy kiss on each cheek in the European fashion...