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Roosevelt picked the Chicago lawyer and dahlia-grower for Secretary of the Interior. Ickes had dared to hope that he might be made Commissioner of Indian Affairs...
...take for granted the interdependence ... of the wheat farmer of the Dakotas, the cotton grower of the Carolinas or the market gardener of California [with] the miner in Pennsylvania and the manufacturer in New York. . . . The interdependence of the world economy is less apparent. But it is quite as real...
Since the Japanese surrender last August, Generalissimo Chiang's Government has cracked down on opium dens in Peiping and Tientsin, ordered the destruction of poppy fields. All addicts must give up the habit in eight months or suffer severe punishment. A grower of poppies, a purveyor, or a pill-smoker caught in his third offense may be punished by death...
...home at dusk from an afternoon's jack rabbit-shooting in the flat, dusty San Joaquin Valley, Levi Multanen, 33, thought of his nephew, long missing in the South Pacific. That reminded him how much he hated Japs. Passing the home of Nisei Charles Iwasaki, a raisin-grape grower, Rancher Multanen paused. He knew who lived there-a Jap. Impulsively he leveled his shotgun, fired four times. He walked home, feeling better. The Iwasakis, scared but unwounded, did nothing...
Andrew Green was one of Santayana's students. He went into business in Chicago to make money quickly, made it, retired, went to China, hired a junk and sailed leisurely up & down the great rivers. Eventually he settled in the British West Indies as a fruit grower, and married a slight, wise, well-read Negro girl...