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...Shanghai veteran correspondents reported scenes of "filth, disease, hunger and madness" among the 1,000,000 Chinese refugees from battle areas. In a single theatre 14,000 have been living like vermin for weeks. Biological processes continued: among the 1,000,000 refugees a child was born every minute, there was a death every three minutes, and twelve mothers died in childbirth every hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Death and Conquest | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...their days are numbered, and their sway ended. The Coughlins, Curleys, Lemkes, Smiths and others have been discarded to the rubbish heap of American opinion. Is it too much to dream that America will keep them there? Dare we hope that we will remain as free of these vermin during the years to come as we are today in the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POST MORTEM | 11/5/1936 | See Source »

...which is so liberal, not to say wasteful, in spending the people's money, might use some of the money for the useful and needful purpose of purging the country of the murderers, robbers, kidnappers, blackmailers, gangsters and rack- eteers which have invaded it from other lands as vermin invade a neglected house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hero & Herod | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...Hearst's New York Mirror is currently drumming up circulation and sympathy for Hauptmann by printing exclusively his "sloppily sentimental" autobiography. "And Hearst talks of vermin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hero & Herod | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...Troublemaking Governor Hoffman is "an especial pet of Hearst." "And Hearst talks of vermin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hero & Herod | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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