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Rolling Stock. Russo-Japanese relations, quiet for a year, suddenly snapped taut last week at an angry squawk from the government of Manchukuo. While thousands of Soviet troops have moved quietly into line along the Manchukuan border, railway officials at the Russian end of the Chinese Eastern Railway have been quietly detaining rolling stock of the C. E. R., rerouting them over Russian tracks. Manchukuo officials woke to the fact last week that the Soviet had "borrowed" 3,200 freight cars, 190 passenger cars, 83 locomotives. The system was paralyzed, for the C. E. R. is built on Russian broad...
...People (by Elmer Rice, producer) is a potent squawk in 20 scenes with 44 characters against U. S. capitalism. In a welter of interrelated stories and typical industrial abuses, William Davis is a contented iron works foreman with a refined school teacher daughter about to marry a genteel bank clerk, and a bright son entering the State University. Comes Depression, Davis loses his job, his savings in a bank crash, his home and is finally shot down in an unemployed demonstration. The daughter lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins...
...right to the inheritance. Before she can relinquish her own rights, it might well be necessary to determine what her rights are. The statement of Lawyer Holman therefore left the question almost exactly where it had been when Zachary Smith Reynolds Jr. propounded it with his first squawk. A few of the other questions which remained for the courts to settle...
Whether the discreet little Bishop thereupon suppressed a loud and indignant squawk is not a matter of record. But last week the incident supplied him with a lively topic for a speech before-the France-America Society. La Belle France, mother of La Fayette and De Grasse and more recently a noble Ally had, in his opinion, been grossly outraged...
Long-necked Japanese cranes make a peculiar gurgling squawk. Near the crane pen in the Washington Zoo stands a pretentious apartment house whose residents have long been annoyed by the gurgling squawks of the Zoo's cranes-Japanese, Siberian, domestic. When Senator Edward Prentiss Costigan of Colorado moved into this apartment house, other tenants hoped he would be disturbed by the cranes, be awakened by one particularly noisy Japanese crane (named Anson) who squawked before dawn each morning. They felt sure that if Senator Costigan complained, something would be done to silence the cranes...