Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the Front. But still unconquered are tens of thousands of square miles behind the Japanese lines, regions ruled by guerrilla bands of Chinese. Since they must keep an army of 475,000 in Manchukuo, as insurance against Russia, Japanese cannot afford the manpower necessary to garrison most Chinese villages in the occupied areas. So they have attempted to set up puppet Chinese governments. Where these governments are effective the Chinese are taxed to death; there is a tax on pigs, a tax on goods-in-stock, a tax on travel, and a, tax on the movement of all commodities...
...full floor on Broadway, where Fred holds sway like a master of ceremonies. Only other active member of the original four is Poley McClintock, who more than any other member has made the Waring band memorable, by his froggy-voiced interpolations. Fred Buck is dead. Tom Waring is still considered one of the gang but spends most of his time practicing for a debut as a concert baritone. Fred directs production, helps write continuity, coaches the gang in rehearsal ("come lively," "stay with me," "give it rapture!"), plays golf in the 705 as his main relaxation...
...course as a musical businessman he has picked up two subsidiaries, Words & Music Inc., and a $250,000 venture in an electric drink and food mixer he thought up two years ago. The Waring mixer in its first year and a half sold 60,000, is still going strong...
...maintenance and upbuilding of which I have sacrificed my health and strength. . . .") Ralph Pulitzer, who cared more for big game hunting than for journalism, took over the World, in its last years delegated its management to other executives, finally sold it in 1931 to the Scripps-Howard chain. Still flourishing under Brother Joseph Jr. is Pulitzer paper No. 2, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...friends last week were willing to bet that Jack Crocker, no snob, would get on well at snobbish Groton. One of his chief problems will be to satisfy old Groton boys, whose sons have always had first chance to be admitted to Groton, and still make it a representative institution. Already there are so many sons of old Groton boys (including 16 Roosevelts) that they form almost two-thirds of Groton's enrollment...