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...vague promises of assistance in the future they were embarrassingly grateful. They showered the most lavish hospitality on us and produced something very like a slap-up Chinese feast out of army rations dropped from the air and from the produce of the savage hillmen's gardens. They are wonderful people, the Chinese. I take off my hat to them every time. Now I'm down with malaria and am having a few days' rest. When this work's over I'm looking forward to seeing you and China again...
...hillmen and lowlanders in the farthest reaches of the U. S., to the nearest of his friends this week in the damp June heat of Washington, the name Franklin Roosevelt meant many things-interesting, exciting, even dangerous things-but no one thing they could all agree on or put a name...
...Only surprise came on the Republican side, where millionaire Governor Francis Parnell Murphy, now serving his second term, ran fifth in a race for four G. O. P. convention seats. By choosing Senators Styles Bridges and Charles Tobey, onetime Senator George Higgins Moses, onetime Governor Huntley Nowel Spaulding, the hillmen of New Hampshire told Shoemaker Murphy (Thorn McAn) to stick to his last...
...death wound. Wee Willie Winkie thought she would call on Khoda Khan and tell him that Old Boots wanted to be friends. Her arrival pleased the Khan because it meant the regiment would follow through the pass to certain slaughter. When Old Boots ignored the volleys of the hillmen to stalk up alone for a confab, the Khan changed his mind about the slaughter. Wee Willie Winkie is a craftsman's picture which is also, surpassingly, an audience's picture. To able Associate Producer Gene Markey goes credit for seeing how the suggestions implicit in the Kipling fragment...
...from New Jersey to the Dutch East Indies as a provisional triumph for U. S. oil. It would have been less provisional were Afghanistan better recognized as a potential oil source. Until a few years ago neither oil prospectors nor anyone else traveled freely among the rifle-bearing Afghan hillmen. The potentiality of Afghan oil fields is something presumably best known to Inland. In Manhattan last week Seaboard's President John Meston Lovejoy, who is also president of Inland Exploration Co., remarked with restraint that the concession was an opportunity to spend a lot of money. Said cautious President...