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Annam, the only empire in French Asia, lies facing the China Sea between the French protectorates of Cochin China and Tonking. With an area as large as Kentucky's and a population twice as great, Annam exports prime rice & pepper, fair tea, trinkets. Beyond a doubt her young Emperor would have preferred to remain in Paris and he almost had a chance to stay on. The August Messenger from the Regent of Annam who set out last spring to recall His Majesty traveled by the brand new French luxury liner Georges Phillipar. When she burned up and sank...
Deming, N. M., Sept. 28--Railroad officials refused extend credit. Protest putting me off in Deming. Population one-twentieth person and one cholla per square mile, area 20 square miles Barely subsisting diet enchiladas, but hope reach Cambridge in time to say to the regular dopesters, Hageman and I'll Buffalo you. Eluded Chinese secret service Manchukuo. Bandits not in Japanese Employment; is no such thing. Disregard protests Pacific Steamship Company I impersonated Gibbons for free return voyage; he isn't patch on me. Sorry Roosevelt farm relief speech caused confusion, I wrote first half. Ejected from his special...
...Salt Lake City he delivered another on railroads. At Denver he was photographed giving a dirt farmer a high Harvard handshake. Prairie towns along the track turned out good crowds to greet him. They were not so large or so noisy as those that appeared in the same area four years ago for Al Smith but they seemed more likely to vote for the party's 1932 candidate. In his shirt-sleeves Governor Roosevelt appeared repeatedly on the observation platform of the Pioneer. Supporting himself on the upright bars used for loud speaker apparatus,* he was cheery and chatty with...
...recovery from extreme depression and panic. . . . The panic conditions are completely over and will not return. . . . Ogden Mills, Secretary of the Treasury, estimates July 27 as about the date that marked the ending of that final phase of the depression. . . . There is now practically no one in any area of serious thought who doubts that the depression is ended. . . . Practically no one doubts that the rises so far attained will on the average remain or go farther. . . . The second stage of recovery consists of the resumption of manufacturing and other business. ... It is yet too early for actual statistics...
...workmen going to their jobs on a new-penitentiary on an island in the river. Next instant, deafened by a water-boiling explosion, they saw a great cloud of smoke spouting a horrid spray of bodies, fragments of wood and metal, fragments of bodies over a 200-yard area of land and water...