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...fortunes of the Chinese Nationalist government, teetering dangerously for months, swung high again last week. The so-called bandit-communist armies that have menaced all government in the central provinces were comparatively quiescent. Torrential floods which have interrupted military operations against the northern leaders, subsided. Nationalist military despatches proudly announced 20 battles in one week. Best of all. Nationalist troops captured Tsinan, capital of Shantung province, in a pitched battle. Northern troops fled back toward the Yellow River leaving quantities of arms and munitions behind them. Optimistic correspondents in Shanghai announced that the capture of Tsinan and the resultant crippling...
...intention of summoning Mr. Raskob before the same committee and interrogating him sharply as to his contributions to the association against the 18th Amendment and his activities in behalf of Wet legislation. For months the Democratic hue and cry against Mr. Raskob as a Wet Catholic has been quiescent. Party leaders have tried to forget Prohibition, to weld the wings of Democracy together again for the 1930 campaign. Shrewd Republican politicians saw the advantages in breaking the rival party once more by the simple method of putting Mr. Raskob into the lobby spotlight, examining him on Prohibition. Even...
Bleating amiably, the two lambs made frantic efforts to lick the Pontiff's hand as he blessed them, then lay quiescent as they were solemnly handed over to the Benedictine nuns of the Church of St. Cecilia in Trastevere, who promised to take the best of care of them until the day of their shearing, Wednesday in Holy Week, when the weather should be warm. Carried to St. Cecilia's convent, the two pontifical lambs resumed their important business of sprouting wool...
...After disturbances a fortnight ago Haiti was last week quiescent. Political organizations asked President Hoover to supply U. S. supervision for the April elections, as was done last year in Nicaragua. Arrests were only for violation of the 9 p. m. curfew under martial law. President Borno's daughter Madeleine was ceremoniously taken to wife by Daniel Brun, architect. Additional Marines dispatched aboard the U. S. S. Wright were diverted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the U. S. House of Representatives moved to give President Hoover the investigating commission he had asked for (TIME...
...campaigns and leaves of absence, of the swarming Caparetto retreat, of the Lieutenant's affair with Catharine Barkley, an English nurse who died in childbirth when he had deserted the wars and taken her to Switzerland, is infused with the chaotic sweep of armies and tenderly quiescent love. In its sustained, inexorable movement, its throbbing preoccupation with flesh and blood and nerves rather than the fanciful fabrics of intellect, it fulfills the prophecies that his most excited admirers have made about Ernest Hemingway. His mannered style, consciously bald, may still be annoying to some, but its pulsing innuendo cannot...