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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Host made address. 2) Japanese newsman reply. 3) Chinese newsman reply reply. 4) Chinese prostitute sing a song. 5) Japanese prostitute gave some performance. 6) Everyone drank three cups. 7) Gen. Chi led to sing 2 military songs (composed by himself) the 1st one is to build an army policy, the 2nd one Sino-Japanese cooperation. 8) Japanese prostitute gave two performances. 9) Chinese prostitute sang songs. 10) Japanese prostitute performed, 11) Guests offer performances. 12) Everyone drank 3 cups. 13) Discussion and exchange of opinions. The press reports that it is a heroic as well as romantic meeting, heroic...
...President's jaw was set hard and Franklin Roosevelt did not grin at his interviewers. Most of the correspondents looked uncomfortable. The room was quiet as a church. The President broke the silence, made his announcement on neutrality. The questions asked him were terse and sober; his replies were concise. Not a word did Franklin Roosevelt say to Fred Storm, one of his favorite correspondents, about his leaving U. P. to work for Sam Goldwyn and Jimmy Roosevelt in Hollywood. When the conference was over the newspapermen filed out as quietly as they had entered, and everybody knew that...
...Chronicle. Then, deciding he needed more education, he borrowed $500 and went to Europe. In January 1933 the financial editor of the Chronicle died and Wonderboy Smith got a cable to come home and take the job. When Herbert Hoover tried to hire him away in 1935, he was made executive editor. In October 1937 he became general manager, with only one boss, Cementman George Cameron, who married the founder's eldest daughter...
Joint owners of the paper, their interest in it had been confined to 1) how much money it made, 2) how well it did by their friends in society. Paul Smith talked Publisher George Cameron into giving him a little elbow room and the next thing San Francisco knew the Chronicle had defied a shipowners' and merchants' boycott, front-paged a defiant editorial declaring its independence of The Interests...
...Wilford Smith grew older, his friends died off. As he grew poorer, he made friends with stray dogs. He kept them on mattresses in a spare room, bought them tags and food. Said he: "They make grand boarders. They are always on time for meals." But his oldest friend was liquor, and this friend did him in. His funeral was conducted by the Elks ("my church") and the Bill of Rights read over his grave...