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...there had been no Soong scion, if he had not learned sound banking and business principles at Harvard, the course of modern Chinese history would have run in a profoundly different rut. In 1922 the Nationalists, who have since conquered all China, were an insignificant group of zealots dominating only the region of Canton. On an income from local taxes of only one million dollars per month they could not finance a China-conquering expedition. Two years later young T. V. Soong was called to the Nationalist Finance Ministry...
...Chandler, 43, north of Poteet, Tex. The farmer, sitting on his front porch, rose, picked up a gun. ''We're federal officers and you're under arrest," called Agent Stevens. Leveling his rifle at the farmer, Stevens started to rush him, tripped over a sand rut, pulled the trigger, shot the farmer through the heart, dead. Stevens had no search warrant. His raid netted a still, 19 barrels of mash, 28 gallons of whiskey. He was held for murder...
Fred Warren Green, Governor of Michigan, flew to the horse races at Kalamazoo with a friend for pilot. Landing on the track, the plane hit a rut, was pitched on its nose in front of 7,000 Michiganders. Governor Green & friend climbed out unhurt...
...Mormon Church is a business as well as a religion. Reed Smoot busied himself with its finances, pulled them out of a rut, made its beet sugar and woolen enterprises return good profits. His industry, in 1903, was rewarded with an election to the U. S. Senate...
Cocky as always, the little Welsh David chose to speak on St. David's Day, in a hall decked with crisp Welsh jonquils. "Stanley Baldwin reminds me," he chirped, "of a driver who finds his cart stuck in a rut and sits there smoking his pipe, saying 'Leave it to the horse...