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Nuremberg. Precariously clinging to the neck of the dragon he has created, little Adolf Hitler saw the world more unified against Germany than at any time since 1918, and preparing to do something about it. It was time for Hitlerism to pull its horns in once more, and that Hand- some Adolf proceeded to do with superlative skill. In medieval Nuremberg, home of Die Meistersinger and Albrecht Durer, scene of the first public Nazi review, yet another huge Nazi fiesta was under way. Bands blew their lungs out, flags fluttered from every housefront, tens of thousands of Nazis tramped their...
...enemies of the late notorious Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, owner-publisher of the Denver Post, said that he wore his yellow journalism with a difference-as protective coloration over an armor of blackmail. Few men have received such audibly frank obituaries. Last week Denverites were forcibly reminded of the "Old Dragon of Champa Street" when newsboys, billboards, burgees, street ballyhoos and all the paraphernalia of a high-pressure sales campaign launched The Great I Am, a thinly-veiled story of Publisher Bonfils' rackety career...
...Long Dragon. Because the Yellow Dragon, broad and meandering, is too shallow for modern navigation, the commerce of the West courses into China chiefly up the Long Dragon, the Yangtze, which is deep enough for foreign steamers and war boats to sail 600 miles inland up to "The Chicago of China," Hankow. Last week the Yangtze rose at the rate of one foot per day until it was a foot higher than any dikes which existed two years ago, but still four feet below the tops of the 7,000 miles of new dikes built last year by hundreds...
...Yellow Dragon. Famed for centuries as "China's Sorrow" and the "Curse of the Sons of Han," the Yellow Dragon staged its most spectacular Hood in 1852 when it shifted its entire course from the south side to the north side of the Shantung Peninsula. Ever since it has discharged into the sea 400 miles north of its former mouth. Last week the Government experts, prowling anxiously up and down the Yellow River's dikes below Kaifeng. finally telegraphed a nation-wide warning that "almost inevitably" the retaining walls will give way and the Yellow Dragon will revert...
Last week the Yangtze River Conservancy Commission rushed gangs of coolies to plug holes in the dikes with mattresses of woven reeds. With the Long Dragon still rising at Hankow, the Bund and parts of the French and Japanese concessions were already a foot deep in water. Afraid that even Nanking the capital, only 200 miles from the sea, might be flooded, the Government sent out soldiers who rounded up every coolie they could catch, prodded them out to the Yangtze's brim, kept them working day and night under bayonet guard, piling up dirt and still more dirt...