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Shrinking Corridor. The Communists thought they might win the battle for Manchuria in the next six months. A midwinter Communist offensive had narrowed the government's already slender corridor; Mukden and Changchun lay under virtual siege. The railway south of Peiping was broken again; transport planes from Peiping last week began to evacuate government civilian employees from Mukden and Changchun. But Nationalist troops hung on grimly inside the Manchurian corridor. Said their commander in Mukden: "We must hold Manchuria...
Rhode Island's old (80) Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green cried that the accusations were based on "nothing more than gossip." The hearing was getting hotly political when Stassen asked to be excused: he had to go make a political speech in Missouri. In the corridor, he walked past glowering General Graham, who would have his say on the witness stand this week. They did not speak...
...pioneer in mechanized cane-farming; of a heart ailment; in Mix, La. Wurtele invented a mechanical cane-harvester, and developed a process for converting sugar into synthetic rubber, attracted wider attention in 1939 when he proposed a plan to appease Hitler by buying him Danzig and the Polish Corridor for $70 million (Wurtele offered...
Silver-haired Sam Breadon stepped out of his St. Louis office into a corridor crowded with reporters. They had been kept waiting half an hour. They knew as well as Breadon (rhymes with raidin') what the news would be, but he found it hard to get it out. Said the boss of the St. Louis Cardinals: "Uh-the Cardinals, that is uh-uh-a deal has been consummated. The Cardinals have been sold...
...corridor, a group of matrons were trying to decide whether to take any more of this, or to go home. A tall, distinguished-looking man came rushing down the corridor. "Let's go, ladies," he called rudely. They fluttered out of his way, and he rushed by toward an unknown destination, clutching a bottle of Scotch in his arms. A weary woman murmured: "Oh dear, when will we become world-minded...