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...TIME, July 19). In a series of pitched battles at historic Marco Polo Bridge and among the hamlets clustered about Peiping, Chinese gave a spirited account of themselves, and last week in picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting Gate, but panic-stricken Chinese peasants continued to flee in from the countryside...
...Smart farmers use the so-called 12-10-1 corn-hog formula to determine whether it is more profitable to sell corn as corn or as pork The formula: when 100 Ib. of hog is worth more nan 12 bu. of corn, raise hogs: when worth less, sell corn. At farm prices hogs are now sellmg for about $11 per cwt., while 12 bu of corn are worth more than $15. Thus corn is favored. Originated during the War when Herbert Hoover, the Food Administrator, was trying to boost hog production, the formula is actually 11.6-to-1, but farmers...
...This is a revolutionary government. Its purpose is to overthrow the Nan king Government by political means. We welcome and hope for co-operation from other regimes in China, but this must be based on friendship with our good neighbors, Japan and Manchukuo...
Frolicking happily by the shore of a Swiss lake, the Craig children, Penny (Deanna Durbin), Joan (Nan Grey) and Kay (Barbara Read), find their mother in tears over the news that their father, a New York banker, divorced ten years ago, is planning to marry again. Instead of laughing at this news as sophisticated children might well do, the small Craigs react like little Peppers. They decide the situation demands action. Borrowing fare from their nurse, they embark for New York, arrive when Judson Craig (Charles Winninger) is sitting down to lunch with his inamorata, Precious (Binnie Barnes). From...
...support is as good as one is accustomed to fine under a master. Robert Keith is in general quite satisfactory as Iago, although his appearance is more suggestive of a mischievous schoolboy than of a malignant traitor, and in spite of the somewhat excessive faces and eyes he makes. Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston) is as vivacious and as sweet as Desdemona should be, but she can't help looking a little mature. Euqal praise might be extended to Natalie Hall as Emilia and G. P. Huntley, Jr. as Cassio...