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Emily's latest book is not only a "partial autobiography," but also a jampacked grabbag of the personalities and private lives of nearly everyone she met in China, from Asiatic prostitutes to European taipans (rich merchants). She has relatively little to say about Chinese politics ("I have not sold my soul to any political party"), though she prefers the Chungking Government to the Communists and insists that stories of quarreling among the Soong sisters (Mesdames Chiang Kaishek, H. H. Kung and Sun Yatsen) are just leftist propaganda. But readers of China to Me will learn something about China...
...winning plan was like. "The plan that the judges liked best," he said, "called for sweeping reforms. It called for larger and more accessible playgrounds, more modern schools with better paid teachers, a completely revised tax system, condemnation of slums, construction of new and wider highways, and the partial abolition of the suburban system of government in favor of a more centralized...
...Dumbarton Oaks proposals represent an achievement. But in their present state they represent only a partial agreement of four nations. It remains to complete that agreement, not only within the Big Four, but by enabling the smaller nations to come along as willing partners...
...President was wheeled out on the porch by Valet Arthur Prettyman. Mr. Roosevelt remarked playfully that on the basis of partial returns it appeared that returns were partial to Hyde Park. In high good humor, grinning at the battery of photographers, he noted several children in the branches of one of the trees, and recalled how he had climbed the very same tree as a child to escape discipline. From that tree, he said, he saw his first torchlight parade from the village, at the time of Cleveland's election in 1892. "I got out of bed to come...
...also pointed to the numerous imponderables that make poll-taking risky work in 1944. Some of them: 1) the soldier vote; 2) migrating war workers; 3) the difficulty of poll-taking under gas rationing; 4) the "silent vote." The one new development in the FORTUNE poll was that a partial check, using a secret ballot instead of oral answers, substantially increased Dewey's vote. At week's end pollsters were busily rechecking and their final counts were yet to come. Whether the polls were right or wrong might not be known until...