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...Chinese "volunteer corps" in the war area would be disbanded. China promised to suppress anti-Japanese boycotting and other activities...
...Japan regards the Great Wall as a definite boundary between the State of Manchukuo and China proper. . . . The Japanese troops now south of the Great Wall will return to Manchukuo shortly. The Japanese Army has no intention of advancing into the Peiping-Tientsin area...
Termites multiply rapidly, work slowly but thoroughly. New York's invasion came three years ago; whence, no one knows. Now every section of the metropolitan area is infested. A theatre near Times Square, a building downtown, apartment houses in The Bronx, homes in Queens, Brooklyn, New Jersey, Staten Island are being undermined...
Students living in large cities will be forced to narrow the scope of their study to selected topics, but the intention is that the report should include a description of the area covered, its location, climate, population, racial composition, and social stratification. The student will discuss the relative importance of its various economic activities, the transportation facilities, and such other factors as will provide an adequate picture of the community in its current setting and its relation to the rest of the country...
...Reserve Governor responsible for the dollar in Havana, he has saved national banks there by rushing them millions in cash by train and plane to stop runs. The worst crash in his own area was that of Caldwell & Co. ("We Bank on the South.") He was one of the first to see and say out loud that the U. S. would never ballyhoo itself out of the depression. In 1930, he tossed aside a speech, prepared for the Investment Bankers Association meeting at New Orleans and drawled out his now famed dictum...