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Thus enlightened, Washington officials sped a $2,000,000 check order to Sacramento by telegraph. There it was learned that Governor Merriam was in Long Beach, 500 mi. away. But he would be in Los Angeles at 2 p. m. to sign the check. Southward zoomed the check by airplane. At 2 p. m. Governor Merriam was still in Long Beach, having a tooth pulled. Could his secretary sign for him? No, ruled a Federal official, nobody but the Governor. A messenger leaped into an automobile, roared out to Long Beach with the check. The Governor signed. Another messenger leaped...
First sign that China was yielding came after Japanese demonstrations in and over Tientsin with troops, tanks and bombing planes, the latter thundering low over Tientsin's foreign concessions. Promptly Governor Yu, whose dismissal Japan had demanded, was dismissed and departed southward with his troops. Five trainloads of Government troops in Peiping were next sent south by Chinese War Minister Ho who prudently imposed iron censorship to keep the troops from knowing why they were being withdrawn, fearing they would mutiny if they knew his treachery to China. Japanese dispatches quoted China's Ho as saying privately...
...news from the West. They did not need to be told that where there is dust there is drought. The records of the Weather Bureau already showed it. The Pacific Coast and Far West had their quota of moisture. So had the States bordering the Mississippi from Iowa southward. But the vast belt that lay between was, for the most part, a parched aftermath of the 1934 drought (TIME...
Ordinarily not a sanguinary sport, fencing scored its first surgery of the year on its swing southward last weekend, when the Varsity team met Columbia, the Navy, and the New York Fencers' Club. Six-foot-one Dick Ford was exchanging ripostes and flesches with Potter of Columbia when Ford's epee snapped off into a jagged edge. Potter's lunge spitted him on the remaining blade, with the net result that six stitches has to be taken below the ribs...
...wife rolled out of Atlanta early one morning last week in a borrowed Ford sedan. By 10 a.m. they had traveled 75 miles southward over some of Georgia's better highways and pulled up before the house of old hometown friends whom they were visiting. An hour later their friends, Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Pierson of Detroit, were taking them through Warm Springs Foundation. Whom should the visiting husband meet in the glass-enclosed pool-house but the President of the U. S. taking his morning dip. "By the way," said Franklin Roosevelt, grinning up from the water...