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...Equity Warner Brothers contract, having flayed Equity in an inter- view, he and his employers were sued by Equity for $1,000,000 damages and an injunction to prevent his acting without Equity sanction (TIME, July 29). Last week he declared: "There are some who call me 'traitor. Well, if I'm a traitor, so was George Washington, who fought against taxation without representation. I will fight to the end against being forbidden to earn my living under a rule in the making of which I had no voice...
...sacred edifice with loud, exultant hosannahs and cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General Calles wired to President Emilio Portes Gil: "I have the honor to inform you that the traitor Escobar (rebel generalissimo) continues to flee without fighting, and we continue our advance...
...very next morning China's bantamweight President-who as Marshal Chiang conquered all China-marched forth against the rebels as chief of the General Staff. He left behind him in jail the governor of Canton, who had earlier been reported executed. He denounced him, General Li, as "a traitor to the sacred cause of Nationalism!" Seemingly Li of Canton was in league with the rebels, a clique of military leaders with their base of operations in what are called the Wuhan cities (see below). The incautious Li had come to Nanking (guaranteed as to his life...
...blow fell when one of his own supporters bestowed the title of King of the Vagabonds upon a usurper whose only claim to distinction was his attendance at an examination in a course he was not taking, a vowedly from motives of curiosity. True, the loyal forces suppressed the traitor and his protege, but the Student Vagabond's security demands a public explanation...
...Since the Japanese are no friends of Young Chang, confirmation must be awaited. Quite another story which seeped out of Mukden was that "Ludendorff" Yang was unmasked in a plot to oust Young Chang, discovered to have "misappropriated" staggering sums, and presently shot as a traitor before a firing squad...