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Premier under the new Constitution has been Dr. Ba Maw, artful, unscrupulous, Anglophile barrister of Rangoon. Chief rival to Dr. Ba Maw has been U Saw, artful, unscrupulous, demagogic leader of the Myochit (Patriotic) Party, who finds anti-British slogans the most effective way of rallying opposition to Premier Ba Maw. Late last December U Saw organized a patriotic demonstration in Rangoon, surrounded the Government Secretariat with two thousand students and 600 well-fed, yellow-robed Phongyis (Buddhist priests). Armed with umbrellas, lunch baskets, water bottles and red flags and shouting "Burma for the Burmans" and "Patriotic Fury...
...this purpose was his Business Advisory & Planning Council, chairmanned first by Franklin Roosevelt's friend Gerard Swope of General Electric, later by Uncle Dan's friend Samuel Clay Williams of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. There is nothing in the record to show that the BA & PC and Uncle Dan ever really altered Franklin Roosevelt's attitude toward Business, but several times it revived that sufferer's failing heart with short waves of Confidence...
...gift asked for by a guest, lest his displeasure work some ill. When the Fiji Islanders set out a new turtle net, the head of the family implores his kin to have no quarrels, which might put a curse on the net and drive the turtles away. The ba-Ila of Africa are certain that if a person is discontented with his portion of eland meat but does not speak out, his kin will suffer from goitre and wens on the head...
Even non-Jews must protest when TIME stoops to contemptible indoctrination of hatreds ba failing to qualify the last three sentences of paragraph 13 under Races in its April 1 issue...
Charley Whiteside, admiral of Harvard's eight-oared fleet, bundled himself a little more warmly in his heavy ba-ba coat, and turned to scan with a practised eye the husky and long-legged young gentlemen in the Varsity shell who were pumping down the Charles at a 24-beat-to-the-minute gait, trailing a long white streamer as they went...