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...Hollywood viewed it, was a bright and glamorous city of glittering vice; the real Shanghai was a powerful economic organism sucking nourishment from the trade of the Yangtze valley. To day both Shanghais are dead-and within the putrefaction of its mist-shrouded cadaver the maggots of destruction worm silently about. Cabarets, with their white slaves, adventurers, opium-runners and hatchetmen, still operate in Shanghai; but ringed about with Japanese bayonets, spies, terrorized by free-firing gunmen, they have lost their glamor. Most efficient of the operating agencies in this Oriental caricature of Hell is the Japanese Special Service Section...
Kono asked Al Blake if he would get in touch with yeomen aboard the U.S.S. Pennsylvania, try to worm some Navy secrets out of them. Blake agreed. Then he went to see Naval Intelligence officers, reported his conversation with Kono. They told him to go ahead, work with the Japanese, see what he could unearth...
Last week a big worm turned in Wall Street. Underwriters Morgan Stanley & Co. haled SEC into court, demanded that it reverse its Dayton Power decision and return $90,844 in underwriting fees...
Last week Franklin Roosevelt reached a worm-turning point. Having tolerated strikes in defense industry for many months-until the public was fed up and Congress indignant-he either had to put up or curl up. The three strikes which put him in that spot were in the logging camps of the Northwest, in San Francisco shipyards, at North American Aviation, Inc., in Inglewood, Calif. In each case strikers had arrogantly defied the Federal Government. In each case responsible labor leaders repudiated the strike. So finally the President spanked...
Story. In Shreveport, La., C. E. Whitney returned from nearby Cross Lake with a fish story: on one cast he caught five catfish. Someone had lost a string of five, and one of the five went for Whitney's worm...