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...armies, had one obvious weapon to wield against Japan's declaration of a moral protectorate. She could appeal to the signatories of the Nine Power Treaty (1922) guaranteeing Chinese sovereignty independence. Months ago when the Japanese doctrine was first proclaimed that was just what Nanking prepared to do. Prudent investigation in Geneva. London, Paris, Washington told her that the smaller powers were leaving the entire matter to Britain and the U. S. who might be willing to challenge Japan for their own good but not for the good of China. An appeal that fails is worse than no appeal...
...public. It was about then that he bought a plane, learned to fly it, determined to make planes much cheaper than they then were. With the late Edward A. Stinson he began producing trimotored transport planes at such absurdly low prices that other manufacturers, including Henry Ford, found it prudent to retire from the field. It was to create a market for his planes that he started Century and Century Pacific airlines, made air travel popular by slashing fares to railroad levels. Slim, young-looking, with a muscular bulge in the jaw, Errett Cord presents a collegiate aspect despite never...
...warms the corn and pours it into the rear of the Wolfs baggy trousers. The Wolf, convinced that he is being peppered from the rear by a machine gun, scuttles off. The two frivolous piglets arrive in time to join the celebration at Grandma's cottage. The prudent pig pumps the organ for their dance. Major flaw of The Big Bad Wolf is not that it wildly distorts a well known nursery story. This is Disney license. But Disney license is not enough to explain why Frank Churchill, who scored The Three Little Pigs, was not required to compose...
...sores which he had on his thighs, some souvenirs of lessons in the art of fighting closely . . . but when he laid the upper portion of his body bare . . . there was such a criss-cross of old wounds and new ones that the Briton fled." But Belmonte is still alive. Prudent, he saved enough money to buy a ranch in Andalusia, with his Peruvian wife lives there now, a retired national idol...
...criminal offense. No court has yet defined a "material fact," but last week in a lengthy ruling the Federal Trade Commission declared that a material fact was "a fact which if it had been correctly stated or disclosed would have deterred or tended to deter the average prudent investor from purchasing the securities in question...