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...more than 70,000 weedy beety acres, the Governor offered as much as a week off .with pay to any State employe,who would turn to. To meet the crisis, WPA projects in all beet-growing communities were abandoned, able-bodied reliefers were drafted. Holidays were declared so that tradesmen could help. They did their best, but to farmers it was apparent that an amateur best was not enough...
People familiar with Japan generally suspect that in spite of numerous victories Japan's war is widely unpopular among Japan's meagerly living masses and once-thriving international tradesmen. Such suspicions were strengthened last week by news of the final election returns for the lower house of the Japanese Diet...
...empire-only slowly did the people comprehend that kind of meaning-but they felt, though no one told them, that Singapore fell without honor. Embattled upon an island thousands of miles from the battlefronts, forty million people felt profoundly unheroic. And only a year ago these same people-soldiers, tradesmen and housewives-had written into the history of a glorious empire its most heroic chapter...
...epitomized in the two books' titles. Feuchtwanger's "devil in France" was the crass indifference, apathy, venality, incompetence of French officialdom. His camp guards were friendly, often respectful-and always bored. The bulk of his fellow internees were "nonpolitical" or nearly so: Jewish scholars, doctors, lawyers, artisans, tradesmen; Saarlanders who had sided with France in the days of the plebiscite, fleeing into France when they lost; ex-members of the Foreign Legion, a few of whom had lost an arm or leg in France's service...
...Bill collectors, tradesmen, even policemen fear to walk in Harlem at night...