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Through such ports, until their occupation by the Japanese, the smugglers had run vessels under Italian, German and other flags, carrying gasoline, cloth, medicines, luxuries past the guns of the Japanese Navy. Profits were fantastic. For incoming gasoline the Chinese Government paid original costs plus expenses plus profit. Goods lost due to enemy action en route were also paid for. Out of such ports as Foochow the smugglers shipped much of the tung oil that repaid Chinese Government borrowing from...
...city famed for denunciations of reporters, Senator Barkley delivered the most blistering denunciation of Correspondent Manly and the Tribune that Washington had heard in many a day. The gist: that Manly's alleged inside story was "a deliberate, and malicious falsehood out of the whole cloth." Correspondent Manly stuck to his story. Colonel McCormick backed him up with a scorching anti-Roosevelt editorial running almost a column...
...refuge from reality in charcoal drawing and lithography. He took no part in Paris' gregarious Bohemia, knew intimately very few of the Left Bank great. Prim and methodical in his daily life, he worked continuously in a small parlor full of old-fashioned furniture and knickknacks, wore white cloth gloves while working, took an occasional evening off to drink tea with a small circle of intimate friends: the poet Mallarme, the composer Ernest Chausson, the decadent novelist Joris Karl Huysmans...
Last fall, in order to save cloth, Italy's Supreme Council of Autarchy (commission on self-sufficiency, headed by self-sufficient Benito Mussolini) urged Italian manhood to get out of long pants, get into shorts. Lest Italian manhood think them effeminate, newspapers insisted shorts were "not only hygienic but masculine and patriotic...
...ceiling set maximum prices at about 15% less than late June levels, pegged print cloth at 39? a lb. Manufacturers, who said this made no allowance for higher costs of raw cotton and labor, simply refused to sell. Grass grew in Worth Street...