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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to leak, creak and crumble. Last year she stopped making mortgage payments to the building society, and when the society sued, personally fought Britain's legal heavyweights to a standstill. "Portia" Borders became the heroine of thousands of Britons who pay high rents for grimy kennels or find their shiny new houses falling apart. Many of them have been making it tough for landlords as increasing numbers of "Tenants' Defence Leagues" have demanded lower rents, better plumbing, repairs. If the owner is stubborn, he has a hard time collecting his rent...
...apanese political pressure on Great Britain. But last week in Shanghai political and economic pressure worked together for the first time. To check a flood of Japanese-sponsored Hua Hsing Bank notes known as "H. H. dollars," in Shanghai, the stabilization commission stopped supporting the dollar, let it "find a level more in keeping with its natural power of resistance." It settled to 13½?, stayed there. Then Britain began formula-writing with the Japanese at Tokyo. Down went the dollar to 7?, while Shanghai business virtually ceased, postage stamps circulated instead of small change, and Japanese exultantly declared their...
...rich as well as the poor. Having spent most of her 70 years in expounding her methods to educators, last week Dottoressa Montessori published a book* designed to spread her doctrines to parents-especially the parents of children of pre-school age. Parents who read it will find that she knocks some accepted notions of child-raising into a very queerly-shaped...
...source of the Salween was whiskers. Colleague John Hanbury-Tracy had grown a beard. A Tibetan official who had been in India and knew that Britons shave thought he was a Russian spy, and the expedition was held up until winter made the trip impossible. Though he failed to find the source of the Salween, Explorer Kaulback was comforted by the thought that "it still remains to be found by someone." He might be comforted by the further thought that in sharing his nostalgia and making mysterious Tibet as real to Englishmen, and hardly more remote, than the Scottish Highlands...
...exile after his Jewish father's murder, heard nothing from his mother feared she was either dead or in a concentration camp, tried to drown himself. That made mild-mannered Mr. Emmanuel angry. Armed only with pince-nez, attache case and British passport, he went to Germany to find out what had happened to Frau Rosenheim. Instead, he found himself held on a trumped-up charge of political murder, escaped the headsman's block only through the intervention of a Nazi higher-up's mistress, the daughter of his old Magnolia Street friend Sam Silver...