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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these were flung against the advancing Japanese. General Pau Chung-hsi, chief of staff, advised that from a military point of view it would be best to make no attempt to defend Nanking. Generalissimo Chiang, who during the past seven years has spent millions embellishing his capital and mak-ing it the bright symbol of New China, unhesitatingly ordered Nanking's defense at any cost. "One day we intend to erect upon ruins," clarioned Chiang, "a new national structure which shall not perish...
...know that there was a work-ing-class movement abroad favorable to us; that as a matter of fact this movement later on diminished through no fault of ours but because of political errors which were committed in Spain. Shortly after the crisis, there came a time when beyond the borders rumors began to circulate to the effect that there was being carried on here a policy of persecution against elements in disagreement. This has spread, comrades, so far that representatives of the Internationals have come to Spain to find out exactly how much truth there...
Died. Prince Ahmed Seif ed Din, 60, brother-in-law to the late King Fuad of Egypt; in Istanbul. One night in 1898, Ahmed encountered King Fuad in Cairo's hotspot Native Club, accused him of hav-ing mistreated Fuad's first wife (Ahmed's sister), shot him in the throat, so that the King ever after half-coughed, half-cackled. Ahmed cracked rocks for three penitential years, was then deported to an English asylum, escaped after 25 years, has since lived quietly on the Bosphorus...
...Johnstown and Camden, N. J., is sold in 300,000 stores the world around. About 80% of Knox sales are plain gelatine, made from calves' bones mostly imported from the Argentine and processed in lime water for six weeks until the gelatine is boiled off.* In 1935, follow-ing competitors JellO, Royal Gelatin, she consented to produce flavored Knox Jell, which joined with new gelatine recipes for pie and candy to give Knox steadily increasing sales all during Depression. Knox now runs behind Jell-O and Royal in total sales, but remains tops in sales of plain gelatine...
...adds up to is that cotton has ruined ten million people living in the cotton States, and it's going to ruin a lot more before it's through. . . . Some nights I can't sleep at all for lying awake wondering what's go- ing to happen...