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The lines are clever for the most part. There is the old grandmother who gives her daughter her last fifty which she has been saving for her own funeral, and then there is Neil Cornish, the bashful town bachelor, who is always wishing he hadn't said something before the...
To the Peiping Railway Station from the gigantic piles of pink masonry which are the towering gates of the Forbidden City, all traffic was cut off. Troops with fixed bayonets lined the road. At strategic intervals the Shui-hui (volunteer fire companies) were drawn up with their hoses ready. They...
Died. James Fletcher Pershing, 71, clothier & insurancer, younger brother of General John Joseph Pershing (72); of cerebral thrombosis; in Manhattan. General Pershing, ill with bronchitis in a Texas blizzard, could not get to the Manhattan funeral.
In vain Policeman Zauritz's family declared that he had been a Communist, protested the State funeral. It took place before 500,000 Berliners who jammed Unter den Linden and the vast square between onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II's Palace and Berlin's (Protestant) Cathedral. For the...
Eager to cash in on the Hitler apotheosis, former Crown Prince Wilhelm laid wreaths on the biers, espied his brother, Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm standing nearby in a Fascist uniform, gave him the Fascist salute. Only last month, when Herr Hitler's fortunes seemed waning, "Auwi" was ordered by...