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...Anglo-Sudan, he brought back 1,400 photographs and 30,000 ft. of cinema film. Sixteen of the 116 remarkable pictures listed in the index of Gari-Gari have been omitted from the U. S. edition of the book, for reasons that observers of the others can readily comprehend. Anthropologist Bernatzik observed natives who cut terrible ornamental scars on their bodies, who wrestled in costumes that gave their matches the appearance of cockfights, native beauties who made up by plastering clay on their heads and dyeing their hair...
...Party circles inside Russia, and most of the other prisoners had handled the money, forged papers and weapons which at every attempt had failed to slay Dictator Stalin. In case this academic presentation in a two-hour address should go over the heads of millions of Russians striving to comprehend in their cities, towns and villages, Prosecutor Vishinsky, showing marked deference to a once great Party figure who was Lenin's friend and is Trotsky's brother-in-law, interrupted Prisoner Kamenev with the simple question: "Were you a bloodthirsty enemy of the Government?" Replied Kamenev readily...
...filled with unconscious new ideals, answers through the mouth of Judge Ralph smith: "You chiseled every last dime you could. I don't see why you didn't choke on the food you got. I don't see how you could swallow it. This is unforgivable. I can't comprehend anything...
...upon the taxpayer at the end of the Roosevelt Administration will exceed $35,000,000,000. . . . Incidentally, out-side of recoverable loans, the Roosevelt Administration spending will exceed the Hoover Administration spending by from $14,000,000,000 to $15,000,000,000. I always have difficulty trying to comprehend what $14,000,000,000 or even $3,500,000,000 really is. But I know that even $3,500,000,000 would buy me 90,000,000 suits of clothes.* At least that is about one suit for every mile between the earth...
...biography of Dwight Whitney Morrow, lawyer, Morgan partner, Ambassador to Mexico, Senator from New Jersey, whose life receives at Harold Nicolson's hands an intelligent and exhaustive review such as few U. S. capitalists have enjoyed. Beginning with an apology for the inability of an English author to comprehend all the factors of a U. S. background, Harold Nicolson presents Morrow as a "completely civilized man," the possessor of an extraordinarily modern type of mind. His apology is misplaced, since Dwight Morrow reveals Nicolson's remarkable grasp of U. S. history, politics, social life, but nowhere establishes convincingly...