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...Nanking, Canton. Shanghai, passionately indignant Chinese likened Manchuria to Panama. When President Theodore Roosevelt wanted a strip of Colombian territory which spanned the Isthmus of Panama, they recalled, a secessionist movement conveniently arose. Panama broke away from Colombia. Promptly recognized as a new and sovereign state by President Roosevelt, she promptly permitted the U. S. to build the Panama Canal. Should Manchuria secede from China, what is to prevent Independent Manchuria from later merging with Japan? Full of suspicion, Chinese patriots scanned Japan for a Roosevelt. Is he Baron Kijuro Shidehara, famed Japanese Foreign Minister...
...much housing that in Chicago women are sleeping in parks. . . . Too much of the national income goes into the hands of a few. ... A handful of men with their spare cash could buy the output of all the gold and silver mines of North America and many a sovereign State has a smaller income than the net profit of a single industrial magnate...
...Richly and roundly he swore upon Holy Bible this mouth-filling Manx oath: "By the wonderful works that God miraculously wrought in between heaven above and the earth beneath in six days and seven nights, I swear to execute the laws of the Isle justly between our sovereign lord the King and his subjects as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish." Indulgently a Manx elder explained: "The backbone of a herring lies 'indifferently'-that is without any 'difference' or deviation to the right or the left...
...year or two, there was a tall English girl with fair hair and a bashful smile, She was Enid Wilson whose father had given her a trip to the U. S. as a reward for winning the British Women's Championship and who carried with her a gold sovereign to give to the first player who beat...
...semifinals. In the second round, after being one down at the 16th, she had barely managed to beat Marion Hollins with a perfect iron shot at the 17th and another on the 19th. Her match against Enid Wilson was close but not quite so exciting. Helen Hicks got the sovereign on the 17th green, played out the bye hole for a 79-two under women...