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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaker was remarkable-the president of China's Legislative Yuan, Sun Fo, moderate, democratic-minded son of China's revolutionary leader, Sun Yatsen. The speech, delivered before the Kuomintang, was even more remarkable-an appeal to the Chungking Government to abandon its rightist position and pursue a more leftist policy...
Born for war, Mosby fared far less famously in peace. He served seven years as U.S. Consul at Hong Kong, returned to enjoy a modest success in the North as author and lecturer. But "the reckless abandon with which he attacked and galloped away as a Partisan could not be repeated as a citizen." Sunk in irascible senility, he died at Washington in 1916, aged 82, his glory all but forgotten...
...Devonians found their cottages windowless, their churches damaged, their schools partly demolished by shellfire. The hedgerows were tattered and ragged, the lanes churned deep by tank tracks. Prim cottage gardens and the rich red fields were overgrown with weeds. Rabbits, multiplying by the thousands, played and fed with unchecked abandon, while the rooks wheeled and cawed overhead. Flies foraged in impudent battalions...
Last week Doctor I. Q. was boning up on Old Testament history, philosophy, prayer-book history and comparative religion at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. The "wise man with the friendly smile and cash" was headed for the ministry. Within three years he expects to abandon his enviable $2,000-a-week radio job for a $40-a-week Episcopal rectorship in some small town in his native Kentucky...
...Dewey abandon an oratorical point and face up to the realization that a U.S. President in World War II must play a role in determining with our Allies the global strategy of the conflict. . . . Let him recognize that the outcome of the American election can make all the difference in the world...