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The President of the U. S. last week told the country that the halls of Congress were "haunted by a locust swarm of lobbyists" (see p. 15). This was news to no newspaper in the U. S. General descriptions of the locust-swarm were wired out of Washington by correspondents...
Acclaimed as "China's Hero" when his troops offered the only serious resistance to Japanese occupation of Manchuria, General Ma swore to defend Tsitsihar "to the Death." He received thousands of dollars cabled to him by patriotic Chinese from all over the world. Then he fled before the Japanese advance...
Capt. Hawks's nose and jaw were fractured, his face badly battered, several of his big, white teeth knocked out. He lay unconscious in the hospital for hours. Said Harvard Medical School's famed plastic surgeon, Dr. Veraztad Hovannes Kazanjian: "I do not think his speech will be...
¶ The "Stop Roosevelt" movement last week focused on Massachusetts (36 votes). Fortnight ago Mr. Smith, despite his earlier statement that he would not contest for another nomination, allowed his name to go in for the primary. April 26. Boston's Mayor Curley, hot for Roosevelt, began hectoring the...
When Swiss watchmaking became standardized, divided among makers of various parts and the assemblers, Georges Pellaton retired. With time on his hands he set himself the task of devising a watch to run by electricity. Since nobody could carry a watch wired to a power socket, he had to put...