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Generalissimo Chiang was now, according to the Japanese, "a regional outlaw." The Generalissimo thought Wang was the outlaw and put a price of $100,000 (Chinese) on his head. The Japanese had launched an offensive in Hupeh Province, carefully timed to coincide with their diplomatic offensive, and on the heels of the news of Nanking's recognition came reports that 5,000 Chinese had been slaughtered in what was called the "climax of clean-up operations.'' But the real significance of the treaty was found in a Tokyo admission that peace overtures to Chiang had proved fruitless...
Bringing his own team and money with him, Hughes set to work on a story about Oklahoma Bandit Billy the Kid, to be called The Outlaw, to star veteran Actor Walter Huston. No sooner was the shock of this major change absorbed than Fox delivered another, announced that a second independent unit had been signed to furnish two more pictures a year. Backbone of this addition were Stars Charles Boyer, Irene Dunne, Ronald Colman, Directors Lewis Milestone (Of Mice and Men), Anatole Litvak (All This and Heaven...
...such accusations may be found in the records of the Dean's Office. Harvard's Young Communist League, for instance, has not in the past been prevented from distributing its flyers, although because it fears discrimination, it has refused to register at University Hall. Under the new regulations, such outlaw groups will still be liable to suppression. But Dean von Stade assures us this will not be the case. Official censorship, he maintains--if any should arise from the new memorandum--will be aimed only at advertising and libelous or otherwise illegal literature, not at political or social ideas...
Trelawny and Byron decided to liberate Greece. But when Byron died at Missolonghi, Trelawny was not with him. He had met another "glorious being," a patriotic Greek outlaw named Odysseus, "a Bolivar who might become a Washington." They hunted bears and Turks together. Soon Trelawny (in a Greek kilt) was living with the Odysseus family in their mountain cave, had married Odysseus' half sister. But she was too fond of European fashions, and they parted. "Marriage," wrote Trelawny, "is a most unnatural state of things...
...declared in principle that draftees and one-year volunteers can vote in person or by absentee ballot. But the States determine who can vote; Congress actually has nothing to say about it. Twenty-nine States forbid soldiers on active duty to vote while 19 others* restrict but do not outlaw balloting by soldiers...