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Presently twelve Japanese planes appeared over Nantao, a native quarter of Shanghai, hurled five bombs on Shanghai's South Station. Scores of natives, waiting docilely for a train to Hangchow, were caught unawares, blown to bits. The attacking airmen, obviously ordered to destroy the station, showed marksmanship almost as bad as that of the Chinese who bombed Shanghai the week before. Most of the bombs fell several blocks away on citizens jampacked in the section of Nantao containing the Bird Market, Willow Pattern Teahouse, other tourist haunts. At least 400 people, including 15 children under two years, were killed...
Macaulay: "I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both...
...impossible for the country to find high-grade statesmanlike men for its leaders. As an alternative to this policy of exhibiting diseased labor mentalities why not try printing an accurate unbiased descriptio and photograph of some of our famous men whose efforts have been to make America, not destroy...
President Roosevelt's famed radio voice was never better than when he intoned: "1 pray God no hazard of the future may ever dissipate or destroy that common ideal [of democracy]." Because more of them understood French, the crowd had more cheers for President Lebrun: ". . . despite the distance separating the United States and France, these two democracies . . . must remain united...
Slight, bushy-haired Congressman Rankin, has a reputation as a liberal, largely because of his ardent support of TVA, and his spleen seemed to be caused by labor trouble in Tupelo, Miss., the model TVA consumer town. There, declared Mr. Rankin, the way NLRB men had "helped destroy" the cotton mill and "the brutal manner in which they are now trying to destroy the garment factories" was "enough to stir the people of my State to revolt...