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This hopeful suggestion, unrealistic as a poppy dream and sadly typical of Chinese politics, quickly got two rude wake-up knocks. The U. S. State Department was not disposed "to regard the suggestion seriously." The Japanese Embassy in China was disposed to regard it as ridiculous. "Wang's statement," the Embassy sneered, "reflects his mentality...
...rain dripped all night from miles of waterproofed flags and bunting. Last revelers from the gayest nightspots had not reached home before operators in the telephone exchanges began plugging in wake-up calls to subscribers. Ordinarily there are about 800 such calls in London, this morning there were 10,000. It was barely light and still drizzling when the long streams of humanity began flowing in toward the heart of the spectacle, on foot, in motors, on the subways...
...Kansas a rural school's program, though less recondite, is perhaps not less valuable than the programs of Iowa, of Pittsburgh. It begins at nine o'clock in the morning with wake-up exercises, and follows them with a music lesson, nature study, travel, lives of great men, books to read, current events. Five minutes are allotted to an agricultural primer of poultry, crops, dairying, horticulture, live stock...