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...thousands of good Dutchmen packed Rotterdam's quays. The well-to-do in their American automobiles - with headlights glaring and horns shrieking-formed a traffic jam for a mile along the River Maas. The middle-to-do on bicycles pedaled vigorously along in their own continuous stream of traffic. The little-to-do on foot crowded the quays, staring into the beam of a great searchlight. Broad Dutch faces beamed, deep Dutch shouts rose louder than the shrieking horns. For slowly, a great new ship, floodlit from stem to stern, passed down the middle of the river outward bound...
While Navy cannon boomed a 21-gun salute, the Philadelphia slid out of the harbor into the open sea. headed for the Caribbean. Plans called for several days' Gulf-Stream fishing...
...There is a ceaseless stream of propaganda going about the country that transgresses all the bounds of reason and sobriety. I refer to statements being made by responsible parties that efforts are being made to force Southern white Methodists into an organization where intermarriage between races is planned...
...night last week German Austrian storm troopers loaded 51 Jews, including an 82-year-old rabbi, into a Danube river launch, took them downstream to the point where Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary meet. There they dumped them on a stone breakwater in the middle of the swollen stream. All night they crouched on cold, slippery stones barely emerging from the water...
...English at Smith College for three years, and assisted Harvard's famed Professor Bliss Perry before going to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an associate professor of English in 1929. By 1935, with The Great Tradition, a Marxist survey of U. S. literature since the Civil War, and a stream of contributions to leftist journals, he had established himself as a partisan but respected critic of letters. He had also become an editor of the New Masses and a known Red. Rensselaer unceremoniously kicked him out on the pretext of "retrenchment,"' but the American Association of University Professors said...