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...Fined 30,000 Cantonese firms and confiscated 600 factories for failure to pay up. But the bosses agreed that some mistakes had been made. In their zeal to get at the helpless tigers, said the Peking People's Daily, party members had classified too many merchants as "half law-abiding," when they were entitled to a higher rating, to wit, "essentially law-abiding." South China's railroad system had broken down when the tiger hunters sacked its entire staff. So many businesses had been ruined that "trade outlets had lapsed into inactivity...
...zeal of Jones Father & Son spreads to most of their students. All classes begin with prayers. Students argue about Bible texts as other collegians talk about sport, politics and sex. At Sunday worship and the weekday chapel services, students steep themselves in "the oldtime religion"-the intimate spiritual question, the gospel hymn, the inspirational prayer...
Citation: "Concerned de rerum atque homini natura, you compel attention to the dynamic of the destructible atom on the one hand, and of the indestructible human spirit on the other. Owing allegiance to the truth . . . you have dedicated yourself as citizen, with almost Calvinistic zeal, to testing the American-and revolutionary-proposition that all men are created equal...
Malan's greatest political asset, aside from his religious zeal, was his ability to provide scapegoats for the Boers' depression troubles. "Rich Jews," he said, "make poor whites." So do poor blacks. "The Negro does not need a house," said Malan. "He can sleep under a tree. So he can work for less pay than the white man. The Negro has a job while the white man walks the streets foodless and workless...
...influence in his own work. Norris populates his world with shy, baffled citizens, harried housewives, fiercely determined children. He lampoons everything from Canada's first native-born Governor General and the laws against colored margarine to Colonel Blimpism at the Club. Typically, his prize-winning drawing spoofs the zeal of the Canadian Mounties searching for smuggled American cigarettes...