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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes over all main Finnish cities. Apparently most came from Russia's new bases in Estonia (see map). They showed ability in reaching their objectives on schedule in formation through low, overcast clouds, but their bombing aim was wretched. At Helsinki, the capital, they aimed at the big central railroad station, freight yards, post office, and at the west harbor (navy yard, transatlantic piers), but mostly hit apartment houses blocks away, shattered the windows of their own legation. Aiming at the city's water supply, they hit the new Olympic Stadium. They killed scores of women & children...
Through his Central China Daily News, Puppet-elect Wang said: "Japan's willingness to make peace with China does not signify friendliness but Japan's inability to defeat China." Japan, he declared, must either cooperate economically with China as an equal, or withdraw entirely. Later in the week he warned that the "new China would not agree to support Japan in any future...
There is a cast of 175, including 50 dancers, which is made up of "cafe society," laborers, shop girls, chorines, office workers, and others. Dominated by an overhanging replica of an El, the scenes shift from drawing-rooms to manholes, street corners, Central Park, bars, offices, and stores. Music and dancing fill some of these scenes in addition to those which are purely dramatic...
...against that country's dynasty. In my opinion those insinuations are old lies invented by cunning foreign propagandists and used time and again to discredit a country that in spite of its precarious geographic position and much diplomatic pressure from abroad, has done more than any other small Central European state to further the cause of democracy and social justice...
...toss in a chapter the length of an ordinary novel, dealing entirely with White House routine, and lose little by it. The look and sound and layout of Washington, the character of battles, the diversity of talk and action over the country emerge as clearly as the central presence of Lincoln, revealed in touches both familiar and unfamiliar (e.g., Emerson's noting that he "showed all his white teeth" when he laughed). On the bitter subject of conscription, North and South, Sandburg gives the fruit of original research. Nothing in the narrative, however, stands out with such power...