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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...search of the club's records failed to reveal any such employe as George Rice...
...orders. The British ordered out their entire defense forces, landing both soldiers and sailors from warships. The Shanghai Volunteer Corps and the International Settlement Police were called out to the last man. To give the Japanese no excuse for penetrating the area, Settlement patrols also began a systematic search for terrorists arrested 150 Chinese, found no ammunition. Two Chinese-language newspapers which had carried a speech by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek were suspended...
SHANGHAI. Friday--Police aided by U.S. Marines and British in infantrymen today began a house-to-house search of the Angic-American area of the International Settlement to round up suspected Chinese Nationalist terrorists...
...climbed in search of blander prospect...
...jugged again, this time in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, convicted of stabbing six Negroes in a fight over a can of whiskey. But again Lead Belly's minstrelsy came to his rescue. Texas' eminent Folklorist John A. Lomax, poking about the jails and slums of Louisiana in search of folk ballads, heard Lead Belly sing, found him a walking encyclopedia of salty Negro "sinful songs" and ballads. At Lomax' suggestion Lead Belly was pardoned again...