Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ninety per cent of all news from China is piped to the world through Shanghai. Ninety per cent of all newshawks in China get most of their facts and write most of their stories in the lounges and bars of the three big hotels along the International Settlement's Bund: the Palace and Cathay hotels and across the Garden Bridge, the Astor House...
...Northrop planes. ... It is officially confirmed that both pilots were wounded and that [antiaircraft shots] damaged the bomb racks, which caused the bombs to break loose. Both wounded pilots are in Shanghai hospitals. It is incredible that the belief exists in some places that China deliberately bombed the International Settlement. What...
...bombing of the International Settlement was intentional, a good many oldtime residents thought that they knew one explanation: Japan by treaty rights is a member of the International Settlement at Shanghai, whose neutrality is theoreti cally protected by the guns of half-a-dozen foreign powers. During the 1932 siege Japanese warships would calmly attack Chinese Shanghai, then calmly claim sanctuary in the International Settlement, using it as a base and openly landing troops there. China is a bigger, stronger country than she was five years ago and there were signs aplenty last week that she was in no mood...
After the weekend bombings neither Chinese nor Japanese tested the temper of this mixed force further by other invasions of the International Settlement, but hot & heavy the battle waged in Chinese Shanghai. By week's end casualty lists had mounted to 3,500 killed, 10.500 wounded with no appreciable change in the battle lines. A thousand U. S. citizens were promptly evacuated; 2.000 prepared to leave at the first opportunity...
...winter set out to provide modern words and music for classroom songs. Irving Caesar has no dependents except his mother and a dog (see cut), but he was brought into the world on Manhattan's lower East Side with the help of a nurse from the Henry Street Settlement, and knows the hazards city life presents to the young. Deploring the fact that for generations musicians have been writing down to the young, he wrote 21 songs, for which Composer Marks did 21 tunes, which are mature, rhythmic yet easily singable, easily playable by teacher or parent. The collection...