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...assassinated should their sentence prove too harsh, faced a delicate predicament. Reluctant to take the responsibility of making up their own minds they turned with relief to the August Spirit of the Meiji Emperor (1868-1912). He gave Japan her Constitution. In his long, glorious reign the Empire sprang from medieval lethargy to modern might. After praying at the Meiji Shrine last week the officers emerged no longer perplexed...
Other Chinese war lords and the Government fear him. Cultured Chinese statesmen, most of them proud of their foreign university degrees, call him a bumpkin and a clown. Perhaps no Chinese love him except the coarse, humble masses from which he sprang. Last week these chuckled as tall, mighty-bellied War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang returned with a broad, triumphal grin from his three-month military escapade in Chahar Province north of Peiping which nearly plunged Japan and China into fresh war (TIME, June...
...through the heart of the city to empty into the South Platte. Ever since the dam was pronounced unsafe by engineers, Denver has feared that its walls might one day crumble and a torrent of water go racing down Cherry Creek into the city. Not long ago the dam sprang a leak. One night last week a smashing summer cloudburst occurred over the reservoir. At 1:20 a. m. the mossy old dam burst...
...protection of her "favorite brother" sprang sprightly, blonde Mrs. Dall. "Give the couple a break now," she urged. "The marriage is over and they are no longer news...
...first time since Jan. 30, the date on which Adolf Hitler sprang alarmingly to power, Germany's leading bankers and industrialists chomped their five meals a day last week with perfect peace of mind. It seemed that Chancellor Hitler's Nazi ("National Socialist") regime was turning away as fast as its leaders dared from Socialistic schemes which formed at first one of their great electioneering points. Fortnight ago Herr Hitler began the turn by declaring, "We must not depose a businessman if he is efficient just because he is not yet a Nazi. . . . Our program . . . does not oblige...