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Groveling War Minister Hayashi apologized profusely to the Throne, took the entire blame upon himself, writhed with conscientious anguish. The Son of Heaven understood perfectly when the War Minister did not hand in his resignation that General Hayashi and his crowd had taken the assassination in their stride, remained Army top dogs...
Then followed a performance which, for sophisticated spectators in the crowd of 40,000 that jammed the wooden grandstand and bleachers of Good Time Park at Goshen, N. Y., stamped Greyhound as the greatest trotter seen on a U. S. track since Peter Manning, more than a decade ago. Stride by stride through the backstretch he cut down Warwell Worthy's lead. On the turn into the homestretch he passed her, swinging out, and the two came into the straightaway neck & neck. A faint cloud of dust, raised by hoofs and wheels, lengthened and faded as the sulkies drew...
...sister-in-law was trying to steal her son. The moppet was rescued by a mysterious young man who became devoted to him. This rescuer, too, turned out to be the Argentine millionaire. At this, the lovers penetrated the veils of mystery that had enveloped them. "In one stride he reached her. His fingers shook as he tipped up her face to the moonlight. He uttered a short sharp cry. His arms swept her close...
...race, in which Owens was not second but third, a stride behind Negro Ralph Metcalfe, was run in 10.2 sec., which would have been a world's record except for a soft following breeze. In the broad jump Peacock cleared 26 ft. 3 in., ? in. better than the currently accepted world's record and ¾ in. better than Owens' best last week, but 5¼ in. short of the record Owens set last...
Smoothly in his stride, Chamberlain cheerfully shunted the suggestion of world stabilization of currencies made last week by U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau (TIME, May 20): "Just as it is no use to try to anchor a ship if the anchorage is always shifting, so it seems to me it would be futile to attempt to bring about stabilization in that way until we can see some prospect of stability of conditions after that stabilization has been effected. All I can say, therefore, is that stabilization is one of our ultimate objectives. We are now watching, and shall...