Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highest Japanese officer in China's former capital Nanking, His Highness Lieut. General Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, this week expressed to Third Secretary John M. Allison of the U. S. Embassy his apologies...
...Nanking, where outrages by Japanese soldiers had continued for over a month, Third Secretary Allison and Charles Riggs of Nanking University, a U. S. citizen, went out last week with a Chinese woman. Their object was to try to identify Japanese soldiers whom she accused of having raped her thrice. Since Japanese soldiers had taken the woman from the agricultural implement shop of Nanking University, Mr. Riggs had applied to Third Secretary Allison for help...
...backed up slowly," cabled Third Secretary Allison in his report, "but before I had time to get out of the gate he slapped me across the face and then turned and did the same to Mr. Riggs...
Among the Spanish Rightist parties which back the Franco Government are two royalist groups. Of these the Legitimists want to enthrone former King Alfonso XIII's third son Don Juan. The Carlists had as their candidate old Don Alfonso Carlos, who 65 years ago tried by an armed insurrection to seize the throne. When the new revolution broke out 18 months ago, he was 86. All he did was to order some 60,000 Carlists to fight under Generalissimo Franco while he sat tight in Vienna. Then one day he was killed by an automobile, and his second cousin...
...been distributed, scored out the offending legends. But 150,-ooo distributed copies were beyond recall. And of course Mr. Nast demanded Mr. Beaton's resignation as photographer and artist for Vogue, well knowing that after ten years Vogue was losing its highest-priced and most sprightly talent. Third Nast move was to rip out 14 expensive pages of Mr. Beaton's art from the next two issues of Vogue...