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Once more Italian peasants seemed to be out of luck. Last year the Government mixed wheat flour with so much corn there was not enough left for polenta (corn meal mush) without which life for an Italian peasant is not worth living. Polenta-less peasants raised such a howl that this year Il Duce ordered mixing to stop. But cold wet weather reduced the Italian corn crop to less than last year's 121,110,000 bushels. The fruit crop too (which in orange-and-olive-growing Italy is important) is poor and late...
...hear her sing. Last week it looked as though music-lovers in provincial Washington, D.C. might be denied this privilege. Reason: Washington's only large concert auditorium, Constitution Hall, is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who are so proud they won't eat mush-much less let a Negro sing from their stage...
...Pennsylvania's present Governor, George Howard Earle, can hardly afford to alienate either Joseph Guffey or the strongest labor leader in U. S. history if he expects to be elected Senator this year and President in 1940. Last week these three open secrets exploded at a piping hot mush breakfast in the dining room of the Governor's mansion in Harrisburg...
...report maintained that in the course of the excitement "a cook burned his finger and a pot of breakfast mush crashed to the floor." All spectators agreed that Senator Guffey stalked out of the room. When he reappeared after taking a walk along the Susquehanna, he announced that he had reconsidered and would give "wholehearted support" to the ticket after all. But later that day Miner Lewis flatly announced in Washington that, ticket or no ticket, he would support Miner Kennedy for Governor. Did this mean, newshawks asked, that C. I. O.'s half-million Pennsylvania voters would walk...
...Mediterranean and India to the Far East, all shipping from Britain to Australia must pass through the narrow Strait of Malacca, which was controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch, and finally by the British after 1824. But the island of Singapore (in Malayan "Lion City''), a feverish mush of mangrove roots and black mud 27 miles long by 14 broad, was practically uninhabited until far-sighted Sir Stamford Raffles set up a trading settlement on the island in 1819. had the whole island ceded to the East India Co. five years later...