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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guns and bullets-that was what President Chiang Kai-shek asked of President Herbert Hoover, last week, and he asked British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, too, for good measure. Since Chinese newspapers have told that "the Quaker in the White House" recently allowed 10,000 rifles and 10 million rounds...
When one honorable Chinese statesman guarantees the safety of another, then if the latter is straightway executed, it is comme il faut for the embarrassed guarantor to commit suicide, and soon. Embarrassed in the Chinese capital of Nanking, last week, was elder statesman Wu Tze-hui. People kept telling him...
Of the editors, one was stocky Ray Long, whose April Cosmopolitan appeared early in March galvanized by a Coolidge-penned story, swift, personal, moving. The other was Loring Ashley Schuler, whose April Ladies' Home Journal also carrying a Coolidge-penned story appeared only last week. The Schuler-Coolidge story was...
But keen readers of both stories last week were inclined to give Author Coolidge credit for fitting his prose to his medium. For Cosmopolitan readers the Coolidge pen had raced intimately. For Ladies' Home Journal readers it had dealt ponderously with peace, defense, good gov- ernment. Publisher Curtis might have...
In her letter Mrs. Christie said that she, like her radical Congressman father, is opposed to "the system which has fostered the present great concentration of wealth in the hands of a small per cent of the population." That was the big news: the fact that there is actually alive...