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Verdict: the Manchukuo Supreme Court ordered "the release of the accused from the accusation on the grounds of an amnesty." Winding up the story with a gruesome punch, Pravda said that the White Guards who thus go scot free murdered the Jewish orchestra leader after kidnapping him, sending his father "your son's ears to show we mean business," and attempting vainly to get by these means 300,000 yen for their revolution...
...highjacking, were basically an exploration and feeling out of each other by the Chinese Communists and Dictator Chiang. Young Marshal Chang, after waiting around in Finance Minister Kung's house for four days, received from the Chinese Government full pardon and restoration of his civil rights, walked out scot free as the kidnapping profession's outstanding Boy Who Made Good...
...take a vacation but fills British newspapers all summer with personal publicity about his "Belisha Beacon" and other traffic gadgets (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934), was rewarded by promotion of his Ministry of Transport from sub-Cabinet to full Cabinet status. Minister of Agriculture, Walter Elliott, the tall, taciturn, sagacious Scot who has long been considered one of the Conservative Party's ablest younger men, was shelved by giving him the sinecure Secretary of State for Scotland, and the Prime Minister made his especial favorite at the Treasury, Civil Servant William Shepherd Morrison the new Minister of Agriculture...
Meantime brave assurances issued from the Schencks that their deal was still on, but reports of Scot Maxwell's resurgence became so hot that Joe Schenck dispatched Twentieth Century-Fox's President, Sidney R. Kent, to London to keep his ear to the ground, his hand on a transatlantic telephone. Fortnight ago, Mr. Kent was suddenly invited to Mr. Maxwell's office in Golden Square off London's Regent Street. If Twentieth Century-Fox would prefer it, said blunt Mr. Maxwell, he would be happy that they should retain their 49% interest in the Gaumont-British...
...serious-minded Scot student at Glasgow University enjoys nothing more than electing a Lord Rector, when he must traditionally fight with a bag of soot for his place at the polling booth. The University's General Council of Electors never proceeds more deliberately than when it is choosing a Scot, like the late great physicist Baron Kelvin or Gladstone's successor as Prime Minister, the late Earl of Rosebery, to honor with the title of Chancellor. But Lord Rectors are only disciplinary officials, Chancellors merely figureheads. The real ruler of this great and ancient University is the Principal...