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...Inner Mongolia and Marshal Yen Hsi-shan "The Model Governor" are doughty battlers whose names are Chinese household words. If they joined President Chiang, and they have joined him before (TIME, Dec. 24,1928), China could oppose Japan with perhaps 200,000 trained and equipped soldiers, plus a rag-tag & bobtail of 1,600,000 ineffective Chinese mercenaries...
Massillon gave the old gentleman an attentive ear because he was no less a person than Jacob Coxey, 76. It was from Massillon in the Spring of 1894 that "General'' Coxey led his rag-tag and bobtailed army of unemployed across the country to the Capitol at Washington to demand relief. That march made its leader famous, though it failed to advance the bizarre economic cause for which he staged it. The Coxey plan for unemployment relief in 1894 and 1931 was to have States and municipalities issue 25-year non-interest bearing bonds to be deposited with...