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...deep in Chinese affairs. He became editor of the Far Eastern Review, with an eye to breaking down "the cake of custom" blocking the modernization of China. He had a seat at the negotiations over Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands upon China in 1915, and helped soften the blow which would have made China a vassal. The Japs never forgave...
...life. A teen-age brat named Miriam Wilkins (Lenore Lonergan) has long and lushly corresponded-in the name of her older sister Ruth-with a young overseas flyer. Suddenly the flyer (John Dall) turns up, all set to marry Ruth-who is all set to marry someone else. To soften the blow, Ruth (Virginia Gilmore) agrees to act out for a little the role that Miriam has cast her in. It starts off all innocent merriment, but winds up with more romance than Ruth had bargained...
Good behavior can cut their terms down to one-third. The Secretary of the Navy may soften the punishment after the Judge Advocate General reviews their unprecedented case. Likely to be the heaviest burden for some of them to bear (unless there is clemency) is the fact that when they get out of prison all will be dishonorably discharged...
...Westkapelle, on the island's seaward face, the Germans had been gunned up for invasion since last spring. The British, who had the job to do and knew it would be bloody, tried to soften up the objective. Mosquito bombers peppered Westkapelle the night before the attack. Next morning the battleship Warspite (15-inch guns) and two monitors stood offshore and poured shells into the German positions. The Allies had assembled 200 assault craft, some of them heavily armed with guns and rockets. The LCIs were packed with Royal Marine Commandos...
...field tests. Like the Rusts, machinery manufacturers are convinced that cotton mechanization is just over the horizon. Last week John Rust, more impressed than he was in 1935 with the social enormity of his invention, said he was still determined to establish a foundation out of his earnings to soften the blow for cotton hands...