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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longest city walls in China, built in large part by the early Ming Emperors, encircle the strange city of Nanking. Seven times it has been the capital of Chinese dynasties, as it is today the capital of the republic, and Nanking was old when Jesus was a babe in Bethlehem. Whole districts inside the capital's walls are open fields, dotted here and there with ruined bridges that once spanned rivulets which no longer exist. Down by the Bund fronting the Yangtze River lives a large community of Nanking's 500,000 Chinese people, pack-jammed into squalid...
...rasping Nanking sirens screeched the air raid warning. Japan's bombers had of course taken off from Shanghai, and 13 young Chinese airmen, each piloting a U. S.-built Curtiss-Hawk, whirred up and away into the northwest to meet the invaders. Just as the Chinese disappeared, the first Japanese air squadron came over from the opposite direction, the southeast, flying two miles up, a faintly buzzing swarm of about 40 grey ships in a dazzling blue sky. Faster than anyone could think three things happened. The Japanese power-dived upon Nanking, Chinese anti-aircraft guns on the hills...
Back to Italy a few months ago went Dr. Senise to tackle the then head of Fascist films, Luigi Freddi, in the expensive Cinema City that II Duce has built outside Rome. To Filmtsar Freddi the idea of cinemoperas seemed "too big, too beautiful" for Italy. Piqued Dr. Senise went immediately to Vittorio Mussolini, who carried the plan just as quickly to papa...
Died. Edward Albert Filene, 77, millionaire Boston merchant and amateur economist; of lobar pneumonia; in Paris, France. From a small beginning, Merchant Filene built his ready-to-wear specialty shop, William Filene's Sons Co., into a potent Boston firm. There he tried to put his philanthropic ideology into effect by organizing a business democracy, giving his employes representation on the board of directors. He was disappointed when he found they used their power chiefly to ask for minor privileges, did not seem interested in assuming control of the business. Thereafter Merchant Filene gradually resigned the management...
...John Hay ("Jock") Whitney and his 38-year-old first cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney have had to learn how to do the same things all their lives without suggesting rivalry. While Cousin Sonny maintained the famed racing establishment he inherited from his father, Harry Payne Whitney, Cousin Jock built up a stable of racers equal to the great Greentree Stable his mother inherited from his father, (William) Payne Whitney. Jock has interested Sonny in Technicolor, just as Sonny interested him in Pan American Airways. In 1932 Jock supported Sonny in an unsuccessful campaign for Congress on the Democratic ticket...