Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the Front. But still unconquered are tens of thousands of square miles behind the Japanese lines, regions ruled by guerrilla bands of Chinese. Since they must keep an army of 475,000 in Manchukuo, as insurance against Russia, Japanese cannot afford the manpower necessary to garrison most Chinese villages in the occupied areas. So they have attempted to set up puppet Chinese governments. Where these governments are effective the Chinese are taxed to death; there is a tax on pigs, a tax on goods-in-stock, a tax on travel, and a, tax on the movement of all commodities...
...organization, contact "leaders of main groups throughout the nation"-Father Coughlin, Kansas' anti-Semite Gerald Winrod, John Frey of the A. F. of L.'s Metal Trades Department, the American Legion's Americanism Commission Director Homer Chaillaux,* Louis John Taber, master of the National Grange, Walter Garrison of the Associated Farmers of California-"in all, men who are heads of large groups on our side of the fence." George Deatherage's meeting to bring these leaders together never came...
...Senate asking questions: at Santa Monica Test Pilot Johnny Cable cracked up the new Douglas ship, with a French observer aboard, and was killed. Re-entering the competition late, Douglas turned up with a slicked-up job, reputedly with a speed above 400 miles an hour, and, in a Garrison finish, last week took first money...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison prize of $175 and a silver medal was won by Feltenstein for his poem "Flood and Low Water." Caughey received the Harvard Monthly prize of $50 for the student in an advanced English composition course showing the greatest literary promise...
Britain engaged in terrorizing refugees and, with threats of harm to relatives in Germany, coercing German-born servants in garrison centres to ferret out scraps of military information. One of the duties of these "journalists" is supposed to be to supply Berlin with the names, characteristics and political opinions of every German resident in Great Britain...