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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the close alliance of the Government with the vice interests . . . one such scandal, occurring in a very recent year, involved a Premier, the heads of the three leading political parties, a governor and other Japanese officials in a million-yen bribery case...
Excerpts from "-And Sudden Death": "Publicizing the total of motoring in-juries-almost a million last year, with 36,000 deaths-never gets to first base in jarring the motorist into a realization of the appalling risks of motoring. He does not translate dry statistics into a reality of blood and agony...
...grandsons may not grow up too late to enjoy the ancient and honorable sport of wildfowling. If each pair of this year's ducks were allowed to live through this winter and go north again next spring, the duck population might increase by next season to 80 million ducks, enough to assure the birds of a fresh start...
Since some 600,000 gunners bought the $1 duck stamps which Director Darling issued last year to raise funds for wild fowl conservation, he can count on probably one million duck gunners who, if each killed only a dozen ducks all season, would reduce the visible duck supply by one-half...
...which collapsed in 1928, killed 400; following an apoplectic stroke; in Los Angeles. An Irish immigrant boy, Builder Mulholland went to Los Angeles in 1877, found it a city of 10,000 people, took a job as zanjero (ditch-tender), studied engineering, enabled the city to attain a million population as a result of his daring municipal water system. When the collapse of the St. Francis Dam caused $30,000,000 damage and the worst flood in California history, Builder Mulholland, deeply shocked, said: "If any human hand was responsible for this tragedy, that hand was mine. . . . I must have...