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Members of the group will have the opportunity to know the city better than most native sons. Chinatown, Harlem, Italy, Syria--these are mixed with visits to the Stock Exchange, the Municipal Lodging House, churches, courts, Ellis Island, the Night Markets, radical centers, and labor groups...
Since the Party has added 22,000 members in the past four months, the 500 delegates to the Party Builders' Congress were well rewarded. Like any salesmen's convention,the Congress started off witha banquet, included group discussions, sightseeing tours, inspection of choice Manhattan slums, luncheons in Chinatown restaurants. Grand finale was a monster rally in Madison Square Garden, with the principal pep talk delivered by Daily Worker Editor Clarence Hathaway, in place of Mr. Browder who was ill with the grippe...
MURDER UP MY SLEEVE-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). One death, by a dart from a Chinese sleeve gun, with suspects that include members of San Francisco's social set, Chinatown characters, and the detective himself (who is Terry Clane, successor to Author Gardner's famed Perry Mason). First rate...
...While hordes of moppets in San Francisco's Chinatown did a thriving business shining shoes, promising to turn over their nickels to the China war relief fund, their elders gathered in St. Mary's Square to gaze at a massive, glittering simulacrum of Dr. Sun Yatsen, the Christian scholar and republican hero who ended Manchu rule in China in 1912. Nearly 20 feet tall on its pedestal, the figure has head, hands and feet of red granite, body of stainless steel, cold-hammered to the shape of a military tunic and mandarin's skirt. Materials were provided...
...Manhattan's Chinatown, strings of pasted together dollar bills were dramatically swallowed by a cavorting paper dragon on Double-Ten, and Chinese Ambassador to Washington Dr. C. T. Wang, whose Chinese Embassy Relief Fund at 40 Wall Street handles contributions, was able to announce that $2,000,000 has already been raised among Chinese in the U. S., remitted to China...