Word: foes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CHINESE CLOSE IN ON FOE AT YIHSIEN...
...shooting in their spare moments. The Great Exile himself parks a big revolver on his desk as a paper weight whenever he sits down to write. Small, white-haired Mrs. Trotsky goes about her housework packing a Webley .25. Ironically, the immediate benefits of these safeguards for Trotsky, the foe of private property, have gone to the landlords in the vicinity who have upped their rents because the day & night police guard has eliminated robberies in the neighborhood...
Meanwhile from Swiss Dr. Herman H. Mooser, League of Nations health official in Central China, came a warning that China is up against another foe-typhus (see p. 32). "Typhus is likely to cause the collapse of all the Chinese armies in the central area. I don't see how they can escape it." warned the League official...
...thoughts and formulates them into the resounding sentences so suited to the undulating rumble of his voice: "The fabric of culture which has been built up by mankind through enduring centuries of painful toil and sacrifice is menaced today as never before. . . . America is menaced, not by a foreign foe that would storm its battlements, but by the more fearful enemy of domestic strife and savagery." Certain it is that Mr. Lewis' horizon is broad. He is concerned with "the future of endangered civilization," "the ideal and practice of human freedom," "our responsibilities to the future of our race...
Died. Joseph Bradley David. 74, since 1916 judge of Cook County, Ill., Superior & Criminal Court benches; of heart disease; in Chicago. Bitter foe of Prohibition, easy divorce, the Ku Klux Klan, Judge David once tossed out of court a proposed injunction against fan dances. Said he: "Lots of people in this community would like to put pants on horses...