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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years before the U. S. took Cuba from Spain, Japan took the Island of Formosa from China and kept it. Japanese citizens, however, do not like Formosa, and only enough Japanese live there to take out the oil, timber and camphor. Last week, far beneath the earth's surface, some internal ailment seeking relief exploded a volcano in Japan, shook Alaska, rumbled down the Chinese coast, crossed the shallow Formosan Strait and rocked Formosa with the Far East's worst earthquake since...
...tumbled the Chinese mud houses by tens of thousands, killed more than 3,000 Chinese, injured nearly 10,000. Estimated damage: 10,000,000 yen ($2,860,000). But since the few Japanese live in light wooden houses that shake without falling, scarcely a Japanese was hurt. More important, Formosa's earthquake left practically untouched Japan's oil fields and naval fortifications. Relief workers who swarmed over the scene reported that an astonishing number of Formosans had gone mad. The head-hunting "Green Savages" of Formosa, who had danced to their gods just before the quake struck, looked...
...personable Wynne Byard Taylor is the daughter of famed children's specialist, Dr. Dever S. Byard. After studying at Barnard College for two years, she preferred sculpture to a formal debut, worked under Antoine Bourdelle and Archipenko. Her husband, Engineer Edward Taylor, has also a doctor father. They live quietly in Southport, Conn, with their two children who are seldom sick. Like most serious artists who do not need to sell their works to live Sculptor Taylor has no eye for publicity. The day before her exhibit opened she dumped a truckload of statuary at the gallery door, hurried...
...writing in the English language and of appreciating what has been written in English. That is his magic. The conviction that but for their luck in having known him, they would be more deaf and more dumb than they are, that in truth he has helped them to live, is the reason why he is the object of a cult in which there is such fervor, such affection and such gratitude...
What with Venizelos in exile, and the rebels totally brought to bay, things were beginning to quiet down in Athens. Yet at high noon, yesterday, the men were aroused from their customary places in the cafes by a penetrating shriek, "Long live Venizelos, and the revolution." Fearing a new uprising, they rushed out en masse to locate the culprit, only to find that the object of their anxiety was no more than a trained parrot. Rebel sympathizers now fear for the life of the parrot...