Word: flees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty Yangtze River a strange procession last week inched its way westward. Strung out for miles along the cliffs, with the river swirling over the rapids hundreds of feet below, 7,000 coolies pulled 7,000 jinrikishas, part of a stream of thousands of refugees who had chosen to flee Hankow rather than live under Japanese rule. Piled inside the tottering rikishas were all the manhole covers, sewer gratings and radiators the Chinese could gather before the Japanese captured the city on October 26. The destination of this scrap-iron convoy is Chungking, China's new capital 500 miles...
...Orleans, Cub Reporter James Aldige came upon three men holding up a messenger boy in an alley. Fists flying, James Aldige jumped in, captured one bandit, forced the others to flee. Then he dragged his captive to a telephone while he called the police. They caught the other two. Few hours later, when James Aldige's city editor read about this adventure in a rival paper, asked why James Aldige had not reported it, he replied: "I didn't think it was a story...
...rate, something must be done to prevent a recurrence of yesterday's horrible experience. When church services are suspended, men flee from their homes, the end of the world is predicted, and even college boys faint, then something must be done. We must not despair of reaching a constructive, workable solution; the people of Mars want peace...
...under Max Reinhardt. When the Nazis came into power, although no Jewess, she was divorced from her Nazi husband (Gustaf Gründgens, now head of the Berlin State Theatre), and produced a satirical political revue, Peppermill, in Munich, her birthplace. For this piece of audacity she had to flee Germany and her citizenship was revoked by Adolf Hitler. She met and married Britain's Poet W.H. Auden, like her a zealous antifascist. At the risk of her life, she returned secretly to Germany to get some of her father's manuscripts. Last year she arrived in Manhattan...
...abroad. Dr. Brüning, lecturer in government at Harvard, steers clear of Germany today and recently was reported visiting in London with his old friend, Winston Churchill, but his flight tax was taken over by Adolf Hitler in 1933 and made a good thing when Jews had to flee. In the two years before Hitler the tax brought in but 2,876,000 marks. With the start of the Nazi anti-Jewish drive and the application of the Nürnberg laws, however, receipts multiplied until in fiscal 1937-38 they reached a total of 81,000,000 marks...