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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Host made address. 2) Japanese newsman reply. 3) Chinese newsman reply reply. 4) Chinese prostitute sing a song. 5) Japanese prostitute gave some performance. 6) Everyone drank three cups. 7) Gen. Chi led to sing 2 military songs (composed by himself) the 1st one is to build an army policy, the 2nd one Sino-Japanese cooperation. 8) Japanese prostitute gave two performances. 9) Chinese prostitute sang songs. 10) Japanese prostitute performed, 11) Guests offer performances. 12) Everyone drank 3 cups. 13) Discussion and exchange of opinions. The press reports that it is a heroic as well as romantic meeting, heroic...
Twenty-two years later, still on the move (whenever Realtor Dankowske could leave his business), they had worn out some six horses and wagons, bought their first car. Then Fred Dankowske had an inspiration. He designed a motor caravan, paid International Harvester Co. $800 to build it. A two-cylinder high-wheeler, it contained a stove and a folding bed. When the Dankowskes wanted a bath, they dunked themselves in a creek...
While his fellow writers fled San Francisco to die in obscurity and in exile, found religions in New Jersey swamps, become monks, build roads, brood bitterly over their frustration, Poet Miller went back to the frontier, settled on a pleasant 100-acre Oakland hilltop, where he erected statues of Frémont, Moses, Browning, charmed club women with demonstrations of rainmaking, which consisted of chanting gibberish and turning on a concealed sprinkler on the roof. In general Joaquin Miller's career suggests that of the whole caboodle; he was perhaps the only one who really belonged there...
...merged with WPA, which now means Works Projects Administration. A last act of Harold Ickes before turning his PWA over to its new big boss, John Carmody, was to rescind a $21,600 grant to the University of Georgia because he had learned the "dormitory" it would build was a new lodge for Sigma Nu, fraternity of Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert, secretary of the National Democratic Committee and adroit wangler of Federal grants & contracts. Mr. Ickes had previously raised Cain over commissions claimed by Mr. Robert's construction firm for PWA work in Georgia...
Recalling that the dismissal of the late Henry Suzzallo (subsequently president of the Carnegie Foundation) from the presidency of the University of Washington 13 years ago led to talk of impeaching former Governor Roland H. Hartley, Governor Martin's opponents began to build up the Fisher dismissal as a major political issue...