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...terms of human suffering this panic's war against us has been more asgonizing than all the military conflicts in the Nation's history. * * * Our country has long been invaded by all the minions of industrial and financial destruction and fear. At last we are at Armageddon. All the merciless forces of annihilation are arrayed for the final battle against the American people. If we lose this battle, the Government will be overwhelmed with irretrievable disaster. * * * On the eve of this decisive battle Franklin D. Roosevelt is the Nation's Commander in Chief. * * * His order is not to watch...
General Kundt sent tanks and flame throwers clattering into the Paraguayan shambles. As Bolivian troops poured in. thousands of little brown men fought back & forth in furious hand-to-hand combat. The sun went down and the moon came up. Two outlying Paraguayan forts were raked by merciless Bolivian machine gun fire. Paraguayans, famed as South America's fiercest fighters with bayonet and machete, rallied under the leadership of White Russian commanders, a stiff match for Bolivia's German officers under General Kundt. Soon in the jungle grass 2,000 men lay dead. Above & below Fort Nanawa...
...monster dragons, alternately benevolent and merciless, writhe completely across China in the shape of her two mightiest rivers, the Yangtze which Chinese call "Long River," and the Hwang Ho ("Yellow River"), each more than 2,500 miles long. Last week China's rain gods were pouring destructive torrents into the two River Dragons' veins. Mad with fear, myriads of peasants and town dwellers remembered that as recently as 1931 the Hooding Yangtze chased 10,000,000 Chinese from their homes and killed 140,000 by drowning alone-not to mention the ensuing famine: the greatest disaster of modern...
...patter still amuses but its pattern is growing a thought too familiar. Not that Author Wodehouse never uncorks anything new. Hot Water, his latest offering, shows him a keen student of U. S. vaudeville gags, funny sheets, Walter-Winchellisms. It is a tribute to his skill as a merciless horser of musi-comedy scenes, dialog and situation that he is still able to raise many a horse laugh. Packy, U. S. Adonis, ex-Yale footballer and recent millionaire, has bitten off more than he really wants to chew in getting engaged to a beautiful English bluestocking. Fat, henpecked Mr. Gedge...
...catch lazy, inefficient bureaucratic Comrades in its long jaws and crunch them with merciless humor is the job of The Crocodile, Soviet Russia's comic-monthly-with-a-purpose. Crunch went The Crocodile's jaws recently upon luckless Comrade Isakhanov, Red Director of a soviet shoe factory at Tiflis, 1.200 miles south of Moscow...