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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week the five new commissioners marched up on their courtlike bench, raised their right-hands, took the standard oath of office ("I swear to uphold the Constitution . . . etc. etc...
Last week Brazil had her own International Beauty Contest. In a field of beauties from France, Germany, Turkey, etc. etc. the 1930 Miss Brazil, Srta Yolanda Pereira won hands down, was formally crowned Miss Universe, handed a check for $10,000, and cheered to the echo. Brazil's mother country, Portugal, won second prize, Greece third. Completely disregarded was a blonde known as Miss United States...
...party had to fight off polar bears, shot five while they collected from the camp a sledge, oars, snowshoes, remnants of the balloon basket, boats, unopened food tins, ammunition, sleeping bag, instruments, clothing, a roll of exposed photograph film, a gold fruit knife, medicines, a white dress-cravat, etc. etc. Then they found a skull, probably that of Andrée.* But best of all they found Strindberg's diary...
...Tong wars" carry-overs from the days of native pomp, crime, and paganism were mistaken. Tongs are not, never were, ancient Oriental groupings for feuds. They are, instead, practical busi ness protective associations formed in the U. S. after the Civil War to keep Chinese laundrymen, restaurateurs, merchants, servants, etc. from molestation by competitors or the authorities of any race. The laundry business (fast becoming a Chinese monopoly in the U. S. until the advent of steam-machinery from Troy, N. Y.) and the others still function; so do the Tongs. They assure their members (besides a sort of racketeer...
Last month Publisher William Randolph Hearst wrote an article for the Frankfurter Zeitung and reprinted it in his U. S. papers. Therein he commiserated with the Germans for the deliverance of some of her peoples (by the Versailles treaty) into the hands of France, Belgium, Italy, Poland, etc. He compared Germany's present condition to that of a U. S. defeated in war, imagining California and Arizona given back to Mexico; Washington given back to British Columbia; Florida returned to Spain. Then: ". . . we would not be willing to rest content under such an outrage and . . . we would take means...