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...dread Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, wrote this hospitalized in Nanking after her car had skidded last week into a ditch on the Shanghai road, constantly traveled by herself and the Generalissimo. "Is it not the irony of fate that I nearly met death by an act of God," wrote pious Mme Chiang who converted her husband to Christianity, "while the Japanese have been trying to assassinate me by bombs ever since the beginning...
...territorial or strategic or even economic designs on Spain." Pointing to Premier Mussolini's consent to adopt the British scheme of July 14 and immediately make "token withdrawals" of Italians from Spain as evidence of the Tightness of these conclusions, the Prime Minister voiced his own pious hope that the last volunteer will soon be withdrawn. He then asked a vote of confidence on the foreign policy of His Majesty's Government...
When dealing with youthful breakers of minor laws, a not uncommon practice of pious U. S. judges and magistrates is to suspend punishment, put the culprit under the presumably healthful influence of the churches. Usually the results are not spectacular. Last week, however, in St. Petersburg, Fla., Magistrate John T. Fisher had cause to ponder the value of religion as a deterrent to misbehavior. Last August when A. K. Patterson, 20, was haled before Magistrate Fisher for speeding, the jurist sentenced the youth to attend Sunday School for 13 weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text...
...King George VI in the Province of Alberta, Lieut.-Governor J. C. Bowen. He was expected by Premier William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart to sign, as a formality, three bills just passed by the Legislature and designed to save the now economically shaky "Social Credit" regime in Alberta which pious radiorating Mr. Aberhart set up two years ago with promises to pay every citizen a monthly "dividend" of $25 (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935 et seq.). The first bill would force Alberta newspapers to give as much as one full page to presentation of the Government's views verbatim...
Obvious purpose of the three bills is to evade the North America Act, Canada's Constitution, and make Premier Aberhart the Dictator of Alberta. There were enough debt ridden farmers and pious adherents of his prophetic Bible Institute in Alberta so that last week even enemies of "Bible Bill" were afraid that if forced to go to the polls he might win again...