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Japanese tanks and armored cars escorting Japanese troop detachments rumbled through the main streets and chief business section of Peiping to the famed Forbidden City of the vanished Manchu Emperors. At the gates of the Forbidden City was posted without explanation a heavy Japanese "guard."
Scene: Cleveland. No deer but any tame elephant would have felt at home that day in Cleveland's auditorium. The audience chattering, the band playing, the smell of fresh pine lumber, were mindful of a circus. Over the delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded...
When Sergeant Alvin Cullum York, after killing 25 Germans singlehanded and capturing 132 more with a squad of seven men, returned to Fentress County as the "greatest civilian soldier of the War," he promptly married his childhood sweetheart, Gracie Williams, with Tennessee's Governor performing the ceremony. His next...
"Sanctions are slow in action," rumbled the Prime Minister, "and lose a great deal of their force unless they can be supported by the ultimate sanction which is a blockade of force. Collective security will never work unless all the nations who take part in it are prepared simultaneously to...
To Jersey City last week for the annual stockholders' meeting of Borden & Co. journeyed about 15 Manhattan gentlewomen primed with leading questions. The League of Women Shoppers, least vague, best-mannered consumer pressure group of its kind, was making its first sortie on the management of a company whose...