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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...father, writing to me from Southwestern China, has in custody a white girl, unable to speak a word of English but aware that she is the daughter of an American father and a Russian mother. For nearly 20 years she has been a slave, bought and sold among various Chinese families as necessity dictated. From Mukden, her presumable birthplace, where she was first placed in an orphanage, she has been carried over North and Central China to her present haven near the Burmese border. Undoubtedly, along with my own parents and all the population of unconquered China, she has endured...
...with his family and raise them as good Americans. He may not have that privilege. The Army may retry, resentence him for his escape. The U. S. Department of Labor contends that he has renounced his U. S. citizenship, is therefore deportable as an undesirable alien. The various agencies still interested in Grover Bergdoll could let him serve his time, then return him to Nazi Germany, where he no longer wants to live...
...Vocalion record, is very loose and easy with a tricky last chorus--the best he has done lately . . . One of the Brunswick higher officials swears that a be-spectacled clarinet player is going to start recording for them shortly . . . Started to compare some classical vocal records with those of various jazz artists last week in an effort to label differences of phrasing--ran across Marion Anderson's new album of the Songs of Brahms and found it to be beautiful, simple singing, especially the Alto Rhapsody which is built around episodes in the lonely Hartz Mountains in Germany. Miss Anderson...
Escorted by his clattering honor guard of Moorish lancers in a driving rain, El Caudillo took his stance on a lofty tribune. Before him, almost all his generals, the soaked diplomatic corps and the dripping Catholic hierarchy, paraded some 160,000 picked troops, representing various divisions of the Nationalist Army. Overhead in the rain clouds moaned 700 fighting planes...
...whole galaxy to which the sun and all other visible stars belong-the Milky Way-appears to be slowly rotating. Various regions in this great disk, six hundred thousand trillion miles across, rotate at different speeds. Mr. Sit-by-the-Fire swings around the centre of the Milky Way at 170 miles per second...