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...been naturalized, which automatically made his minor children citizens. The naturalization papers were lost in a Joplin fire. Short, stout and smiling, Mayor-elect Shaw wears a brace on his right leg, walks with a marked limp. Even to his friends he declines to explain his infirmity's cause (presumably infantile paralysis). Despite it he sails, shoots, fishes. His "new deal" for Los Angeles calls for a big public works program, and the dismissal of Chief of Police Roy Steckel and Captain William Hynes, hot Red hunter...
...dispelled. Granting, for the sake of argument, that treaties with an overturned and incomplete government are merely academic in the face of a vital threat to national safety, there is still a certain overzealous arrogance in Japan's foreign policy which even Mr. Kawakami's skill can not explain away. The present book deals also with the structure and problems of the new government of Manchoukuo, and expresses the pious hope that Chinese reorganization will soon permit the Manchurians to return to the bosom of a really national Chinese state. In all of which, we are left to assume, disinterested...
Somewhere in his essay on T.S. Eliot, in 'Axel's Castle." Edmund Wilson indicates that much of Mr. Eliot's technique, and also his preoccupation with the problem of poetic drama, can be explained by the fact that Mr. Eliot himself is essentially a dramatic poet a dramatist forced by the lack of a suitable medium and by the complexity of his themes, to telescope dialogue and action into a quasi-narrative form. This observation goes for to explain, in Crane's case, the obscurity of his long poem, "The Bridge," and most of his lyrics, though...
...difficult to explain what has happened to the Jews because nobody will talk. Jews themselves will tell you with tears in their eyes that everything is all right. ... I went to a hospital for information. I sent in Mr. Lewis's card and finally the head physician saw me. He refused to answer any questions. However, an interne told me that he was dismissed for writing descriptions of beaten patients on the hospital charts. There were 15 serious Jewish cases in his own ward. Jews beaten until injured for life, one nearly blind, one who had to be sent...
...white monoplane glided down upon Maceio, Brazil, 125 mi. southwest of Pernambuco one day last week and a strapping Polish officer climbed out. He tried to explain to natives that his name was Stanislaus Skarzynski, that he had just flown across the ocean. Presently his story was confirmed. Cable dispatches, slower than the white monoplane, drifted in from Senegal, West Africa, stating that Capt. Skarzynski had taken off for South America...