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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through trying times-civil war, Japan's invasion of Manchuria, the Shanghai warfare of 1932-he was Johnson on the Spot. He watched the Shanghai bombings from the roof of a cotton mill. He liked to call himself the Commuting Minister, and preferred the hinterland ton Westernized coastal cities; only went to Shanghai, he said, when he thought it was time to change his shirt. Almost everywhere he went, his favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, went with...
...Army to join it in a struggle against the Government at Helsinki and announced the formation of the First Finnish Army Corps which, it was said, will be "accorded the honor of bringing the banner of Finland's democratic republic into the capital and hoisting it on the roof of the Presidential Palace to the joy of the working people and to the awe of the enemies of the people." A warning was given, however, that the new Finland would not be a Soviet State, "because the Soviet regime cannot be established by the efforts of the Government alone...
...Louder, Browder!" yelled the crowd outside. Someone led a long Yale cheer for Browder that drowned out his speech. Someone else dumped a pail of water from the roof. The crowd chanted the famed Undertaker's Song. Soon paper bags and firecrackers began to pop. An old lady rushed up to a policeman shrieking: "Disband this group of ruffians...
...stress. Suye Mura, like thousands of Japanese farming villages, is largely sustained by work exchange and other forms of communal cooperation. Farmers cooperate with their neighbors in rice growing, financing the needy (a credit pool is often a form of lottery that continues for years), bridge building, house building, roof repairing, funeral arrangements, and frequent drinking parties celebrating the completion of farming jobs or such vital events as birth, marriage, or the sending of a conscripted son to the army. Strong is the incentive to cooperation: he who gives none gets none. Through agricultural associations the Government teaches the best...
...simple in design. They reflect his eccentricities (he once proposed marriage to a neighbor the first time he met her because he liked the tone of her violin), his essentially happy life, spent doing what he most wanted to do. "The artist," Ryder once said, "needs but a roof, a crust of bread and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance...