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...Chinese Officers' Moral Endeavor Association ("organized to build charac-ter") issued at Nanking recently Ten Commandments. Not legally binding, they are nevertheless officially sanctioned and strongly recommended to Chinese officers of all ranks by slim, shrill, wasp-waisted little President Chiang Kaishek, now busy fighting bandits (TIME, June...
...received such popular approval perhaps surprised no one more than himself. As it was, not even the Democrats were inclined to molest the international bankers in the enjoyment of their victory or to make trouble for the President on this obvious score. Declared Senator Harrison, usually a Hoover-twit- ter of the first order: "To those who say that the plan is in the interest of international bankers and the holders of German securities, I answer back and say, yes, it may help them. But why should we grudge that? Are they not a part of our American citizenship...
Menaced pointblank with Death, President Arosemena appointed as his Secretary of Government & Justice (Prime Minis ter") the No. 1 revolutionist, Senor Harmodio Arias...
...great golden California bear in its menagerie. Embarrassing as it might have been for Transamerica's active management, the Giannini outburst - made be neath Florida's sun, not California's - was soon discounted as a merely characteristically florid sales talk by the ageing mas ter of finance. Meantime, many thousands of Trans america's 200,000 stockholders wrote and traveled to the company's 400 branches to join in this rare game where Little Shots could play pool-partners with Big Shot...
...Haskell ran into my hand and broke my wrist. His eye hit my fist." Thus last week deposed Showman Arthur Hammerstein concerning a brawl involving himself, Jack Haskell, dancemas-ter for Hammerstein's recent Manhattan musicomedy Luana, and Harold Rand, a chorusman (TIME, Aug. 11). All charges were dismissed. The three grinned, posed amiably for photographers...