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...united China once, by conquering it. Starting in the late '203 with nothing but a fledgling military academyand an incandescent spirit, he gradually subdued the selfish and the local men, the provincial brigands, the warlords, the fractious cliques, the Communists. In cam paign and persuasion he forced or con verted the Chinese into a nation...
Detroit's famed Purple Gang, approached with a block of the stamps at half price, recoiled in horror. Last week the Secret Service closed in, picked up six men and 210,000 stamps. Howard F. Corcoran, chief assistant U.S. attorney, summed up: "I con-sider this case one of the worst." For once the underworld agreed with...
...months experts and pundits in Washington have argued compulsory saving pro & con. Eleanor Roosevelt trial-ballooned a scheme for deferred overtime pay, coupled with deferred corporation profits in excess of 3%. Among other proposals are plans to give a certain amount of compensating income-tax deductions to those who buy defense bonds, and simply to impose heavier social-security taxes. All have the same general object: to hold down wartime inflation-and to pump the spending power back when a post-war depression starts...
These sibylline leaves, raked together by Novelist John Cournos, are a publisher's response to the modern impulse that makes Adolf Hitler keep a stable of astrologers, makes desperate Frenchmen con the optimistic prophecies of 7th-Century St. Odile, makes the current U.S. vogue for books about Nostradamus and his dubious doggerel...
...Itching Parrot-"Poll" for short-is the nickname of one Pedro Sarmiento, a well-born Mexican ne'er-do-well who plays out the classic routines of all picaresque heroes, with a strong dash of erotic chile con carne seasoned with moral saws and liberalistic satire. The Parrot disregards a wise father, is spoiled by a booby mother, wastes her fortune, sinks to the lowest flophouses and gambling dens of Mexico City, where "there are but two rules: luck and cheating. The former is more lawful, but the latter is surer." In jail the prisoners rob him and empty...