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While Hankow thus bubbled with confidence, Japanese installed at Nanking last week yet another Chinese Government, composed of the merest puppets. Chinese whose names mean almost as little to the Chinese people as Joe Zilch. This outfit, as the Japanese put it, will be "under the umbrella" of Nanking. The business community in Shanghai, both foreign and Chinese, exhibited no sympathy but much relief that there is now a Nanking Government which will get paralyzed currency exchanges going again. Last week the currency situation was such a desperate muddle that a few days after the native dollar was quoted...
...illuminated umbrella for pedestrians on highways...
...Umbrella...
...spurred through Congress in its closing days. To domestic growers, both cane and beet, the Bill provided continuance of the quota system limiting raw sugar imports, as well as cash benefits to be paid from a ½?-per-lb. processing tax, and the President was reconciled to holding an umbrella over the growers in the form of a domestic price about three times the world price. But he strenuously objected in principle to that part of the bill which for the benefit of mainland refiners severely restricted imports of refined sugar from Hawaii, Puerto Rico and Cuba (TIME...
Testament into journalese. There the peppery, dogmatic rector of old Christ Church, 77-year-old Rev. Louis Cope Washburn, preached his retiring sermon last January with a bandage about his head, result of an encounter in which he bested a footpad with his umbrella. Episcopal Rev. Dr. David McConnell Steele believes that Lent is a bore (TIME, March 30, 1936), Rev. "Jack" Hart this summer founded the Episcopal Anti-Mothball Society (TIME, July 12), "Rev." Mary Hubbert Ellis scuttles about looking for nude statues to cover up, and Rev. Dr. George Chalmers Richmond broods in a Philadelphia suburb over...