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...night arrested an estimated 24,000 Chinese,dragged them off to concentration camps in Shanghai's outskirts. Among the arrested: former Kuomintang officials, schoolteachers,Christian churchmen, non-Communist union leaders, property owners, newspaper workers, factory managers, students. A committee of 24 Communist-appointed "civic leaders," called the Committee foi the Investigation of Counter-Revolutionaries, selected candidates for trial & execution. The New China (Communist) News Agency proudly reported that Shanghai high-school students marched beside the prisoners on their way to execution beating gongs and drums, and chanting: "Kill nice! Kill them well! Kill all of them...
...goes over big. Comic Frank Marlowe does a couple of good wide turns as an overgrown hayseed; Hoofer Walter Long manages to make tap dancing look interesting; Gus Van is delightful as the Irish immigrant, who calls Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy the day he lands, wishes him "a foi,ne year of Catholic action...
...frank return to femininity." Said the ads: FROU FROU BECOMES YOU. In every big U.S. city, black (and transparent) nighties revealed the intimate mechanics of window dummies. Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray. Perfume was a preferred item. Despite staggering price tags ($1,000 foi a 72-oz. jug of Worth's Dans la Nuit), it sold like patent medicine. Customers reached for absurdly priced costume jewelry as eagerly as pygmy tribesmen bartering for trade beads...
...partisans are, in the main, labor idealists. The antiC. I. O. faction is opposed to the idea of industrial unionization, which would lump them together with janitors, waitresses, cooks, furnacemen, everyone else who worked around a school. There were plenty of hot words on both sides. Potent pleader foi the A. F. of L. was Henry Ohl Jr., chunky, prey president of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor for two decades. Able, hardworking, a Socialist for 40 years until the Socialists got too deep a shade of red for him, President Ohl has led his State organization into profitable alliances with...
...Exchequer simply got to his feet and stubbornly told 74-year-old Mr. Lloyd George by implication to shut up and retire to the British has-beens' corner in these elegant, indirect and almost-insulting words: "My right honorable friend [Lloyd George] has found the secret foi perpetual youth, and therefore nobody expects him to play the part of an elder statesman! He has always advocated bold measures. He thinks I am a hard case, but he has not yet convinced me that the remedy he brings forward is the correct one." In suave English political life such words...