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...International Bridge, jumped across the narrow New River, crawled through holes,in a 10 ft. wire fence, and scrambled up to U.S. soil. They were the prey of countless enemies. Robbers had killed some of them. Disease killed many more. Sometimes the unwary died sneaking rides atop 12-ft. hay trucks, which sped through 13-ft. underpasses on the highways...
...FLORENCE HAY...
...post office felt that Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden's mail-order books on home treatment for cancer, heart trouble, arthritis and hay fever had a faintly phony odor. Called on to show cause why his books should not be barred from the mails, the 82-year-old musclebuilder, now in California, said the challenge had made him "feel ten years younger...
...democracy?" chanted a crowd outside Manhattan's city hall. Pickets, led by Author Howard Fast, turned up in the snow before the White House, carrying black-bordered signs: "Seven Negroes framed and condemned by all-white jury." The well-greased Communist apparatus was making propaganda hay out of the Martinsville Seven-with suitable adjustments in the facts...
...Such American liberals as Owen Lattimore and Harvard's Professor John Fairbank have impugned the motives of the U.S. Open Door policy, by which Secretary of State John Hay in 1899 protected China from a growing web of foreign "concessions"; Hay insisted that China have a right to trade with all nations. In spite of this policy, U.S. investment in China was never large. It reached $122 million in 1937, about a quarter of the U.S. investment in Mexico, and much of the U.S. China investment was in hospitals and schools. Ironically, many U.S. traders in China falsely denounced...