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Because several news stories of the year loomed so large, the lists were more alike than usual. All three services named the Bonus Army's invasion of Washington, the Democratic landslide, the Sino-Japanese struggle (particularly the battle of Shang-hai), the collapse of the Insull and Kreuger properties, the Massie case in Honolulu...
...John Tracy, aged 90, of Pittsburgh, has officially been listed as a deserter from the U. S. Marine Corps. In 1864, while on a ten-day furlough to Baltimore, onetime Devildog Tracy took some drinks, lost consciousness, awoke on an oyster dredge in Chesapeake Bay. He had been "shang-haied." Ill, he was put ashore. The Civil War was over before he recovered. . . . Last week the President signed an act of Congress ruling that Mr. Tracy's desertion was "involuntary." Henceforth he shall receive $50 monthly pension. ¶Said Gov. Alfred E. Smith to President Calvin Coolidge...
...cause of the present trouble in China centers in Shang-hai.* So numerous have been the reasons for the rumpus that they have varied with the political complexion of each sinologue interpreter...
Batteries: Yankees,--Pennock and Shang; Giants,--Nehf and Snyder...
Chow-Chow, 2, Shang...