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...stamp Communism out of China. Aside from a brief period of retirement in Japan, Generalissimo Chiang has lived in Nanking (where he recently completed a huge "foreign-style" house), only fleeing from the seat of Government when it was menaced by the Japanese attack on Shanghai. Today the seacoast and perhaps half the interior provinces of China do not challenge the authority of the Nanking Government which is recognized by the Great Powers...
When a mighty, sickening temblor rocked the northeast coast of Honshu, main island of the Japanese Empire, experienced seacoast folk shouted not "Jishin!" (earthquake) but "O Tsunami!" (big tidal wave) and streaked for the hills last week...
...bank to build a 102-story skyscraper. When threatened with bankruptcy he goes to take a Turkish bath where he persuades a goodnatured plutocrat (George Barbier) to save his venture. Another associate is soon a suicide, ruined by a stock deal in which Banker Dwight runs Manhattan-Seacoast up to 350 and then causes it to go rapidly down. Banker Dickson suffers from his wife's readiness to make him a cuckold. Banker Dwight has amorous difficulties of a very different sort. He makes love not to his wife but to his secretary (Veree Teasdale), then to his secretary...
...suffering from "the curse which every Occidental must bear." The province of East Africa to which he goes is,the property of a company which exploits, in true conquistador style, the huge, rich, deadly land and its enslaved natives. The few European settlers stick close to the seacoast, to the unthriving port of Esperanca, cyclone-destroyed every seven years. Or they work and drink themselves deathward on scattered plantations. In the unmapped interior roam man-eating lions, hostile natives, rumors of an unkillable rebel chief. The Governor, aptly nicknamed the Scorpion, is a polished gentleman grown old in disease...
...degree. Since then, on account of his health, he has traveled much, has slept on Stromboli's quaking sides, on beds of rosemary in Corfu. He speaks French, German, Italian, Spanish, knows Greek and Arabic. He lecture-toured the U. S. in 1927. Other novels: Forward from Babylon, Seacoast of Bohemia, Day of Atonement, Store of Ladies, The Miracle Boy, Give Up Your Lovers...