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In their cables this week, seasoned China correspondents had an adjective for the way in which the kidnapping of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was ended, and that adjective was "preposterous." In any Occidental sense it was preposterous that the most powerful man in Eastern Asia should have been violently...
Dr. S. I. Hsiung has committed to letters an old Chinese play that has been handed down by word of mouth for sixth-six generations, or some two thousand years. Primitive conceptions of romance apparently have much in common, for the story contains such supposedly Occidental elements as the third...
*Unlike Occidental voters, under the new constitution Indians must qualify for the franchise by satisfying elaborater education and property ownership requirements. Composition of the Federal Legislature, partially appointed by Viceroy and Princes, partially indirectly elected from the provinces, is likewise a complicated affair. Its seats are constitutionally apportioned among fixed...
Hopping mad, noncancelable policyholders and a group of stockholders rushed into the court of Superior Judge Henry M. Willis, to whom the case had been transferred. Making no secret of their suspicions, policyholders charged that, as late as the first of this year, false financial statements had been issued showing...
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