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Joint Committee. Shortly after Manuel Quezon returned to Manila, he was followed by several thousand U. S. refugees from China. If this influx of tourists reminded President Quezon that hastening Philippine independence might be inopportune while Japan retains an imperialistic state of mind, last week was almost his last chance to reconsider his stand. Appointed by President Roosevelt partly in response to the urgings of President Quezon that the subject of advancing the date of Independence be reopened, a Joint Preparatory Committee on Philippine Affairs, headed by Ambassador John Van Antwerp MacMurray, after a month touring the islands...
...will develop pneumonia this winter, and only ten of them will die from this disease, which regularly kills 100,000 U. S. people each year. But those CCC men who refuse the injections will not be so lucky. According to the averages, pneumonia will fell two out of every thousand of them, and one out of eleven who take sick may expect...
...Cornell University College of Engineering, onetime graduate Athletic Manager Romeyn Berry (now editorialist of The New Yorker) wrote the following: I have worked with Herman Diederichs 20 years. Half the time I would have died for him and the other half I wanted to kill him. He did a thousand kindly acts in my behalf and never gave me a kind word anytime. He was a big soft-hearted Dutch sentimentalist who studied to be gruff so people wouldn't find him out. I'm still mad at him and this telegraph blank is wet with tears because...
WHILST TWO GREAT PEOPLES FLY AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS. . . . Seven thousand miles away Chinamen are dying. Seven thousand miles away Japs are lying on hospital cots-their broken bodies wracked with torture from shrapnel fragments and machine gun lead...
...Rockefeller Foundation was established "to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world." In 1936, the Foundation gave away $11,300,000. It cooperated financially with 130 agencies, in amounts varying from a few thousand to several hundred thousand dollars. To scholars doing advanced scientific work it provided 222 grants. It provided 700 fellowships for post-graduate training. It conducted research through a field staff of 70 public health experts on yellow fever, malaria, hookworm disease, tuberculosis, yaws, diphtheria, schistosomiasis. influenza. Its money flowed into 53 foreign countries from Scandinavia to Java. The agencies which it helped included...