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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father, writing to me from Southwestern China, has in custody a white girl, unable to speak a word of English but aware that she is the daughter of an American father and a Russian mother. For nearly 20 years she has been a slave, bought and sold among various Chinese families as necessity dictated. From Mukden, her presumable birthplace, where she was first placed in an orphanage, she has been carried over North and Central China to her present haven near the Burmese border. Undoubtedly, along with my own parents and all the population of unconquered China, she has endured...
...Begin monthly benefit payments next January 1 instead of in 1942, extend them to about 1,100,000 seamen, bank employes, people already over 65 and now employed who are not among the 42,500,000 presently eligible...
What Judge Martin Thomas Manton, now 58, did between 1922 and last winter, when he hurriedly resigned under fire, was told last week by witnesses testifying at his trial in Manhattan for conspiring to corrupt the administration of justice and allegedly accepting bribes of $186,146.* Tops among last week's three slush trials (see p. 18), it did not make a pretty story...
...Among the principal exhibits are America's first automatic radio weather station, which makes an hourly recording of temperature, humidity, pressure, wind direction and velocity, and sunshine; radiosondes, to check weather conditions in the stratosphere; and detailed data on the September hurricane...
...Hartford, Conn., the House of Representatives took a vote on confirming seven nominations. When the ballot box was opened, among the ballots were found one penny, one stewed prune...