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Long after he had settled in Philadelphia, his fellow townsmen regarded Stephen Girard as a very strange fellow. He was a Frenchman-a squat, swarthy ex-sea captain with one blind eye, an insane wife, and a taste for gold lace and velvet breeches. He smuggled opium and traded in rum, but he named his ships after the Philosophes. Though he became one of the richest Americans of his time, he boasted that he could still eat on 20? a day. Philadelphians called him, among other things, a miser...
They swarmed about isolated Hindu towns, brandishing the four-foot bamboo bows and bamboo arrows, winged with vulture feathers, which they still use for hunting and war. The townsmen called for help. Patel ordered Orissa Province to take over the administration of Nilgiri. Police armed with rifles marched in from Orissa and scattered the aborigines. Then Patel took a train to Cuttack, capital of Orissa...
...real sufferers of the civil war, the peasants and small townsmen find themselves powerless toward off despoilment by both sides. Where the Kuomintang rules, the farmers see produce taxed or confiscated out of their hands; the Communist ruled portions face a "militia" which drafts men wholesale before each campaign. Wrecked railroad lines have made everything but small industry impossible in the cities which are largely dependent upon them for raw materials. Meanwhile the Kuomintang armies have slowly given way to the more mobile Communist columns, which are more able to live off the land than their opponents...
...start that the German bride (Mai Zetterling) of the demobilized Englishman (David Farrar) can't be wholly "guilty" and is perhaps hardly "guilty" at all. A large part of the picture merely shows Mr. Farrar's mother (Barbara Everest), political-minded aunt (Flora Robson) and fellow townsmen slowly getting used to the obvious. Miss Zetterling's brother (Albert Lieven), on the other hand, is as fanatical a Nazi as Hitler himself; so there is no very interesting question about brother's guilt...
Parker warned his fellow townsmen that U.S. exports are 2½ times greater than imports, that the rest of the world is running short of dollars with which to buy U.S. goods, that this "may well cause a serious recession in the U.S. economy." He hoped that his "Peso Pay-Off Day" would impress upon Janesville that "your Congressmen and Senators can go a long way toward averting this danger by reducing [import] barriers...