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Both Your Houses (by Maxwell Anderson; Theatre Guild, producer) is high propagandist art. Playwright Anderson (Saturday's Children, Elizabeth the Queen) bases his tract on an heroic premise : that all save one of the nation's 435 Congressmen are crooked. The honest one is a young school-teacher from Nevada named Allan McClean (Shepperd Strudwick), junior member of the House Appropriations Committee...
...China realizes she must fight for herself now and she will stand firm and stop Japan's advances," declared Colonel H. H. Lin, heroic defender of China's Woosung forts during the fighting around Shanghai during February, 1932. In a special interview with the CRIMSON, Colonel Lin yesterday boldly stated that China will fight desperately for Manchuria...
...just as in the 1935 Red Book the Yard was chosen as the featured subject. The review of the college's history will lay special emphases on the growth and expansion of the University under the guidance of President Lowell, innovations, as now planned, will probably include a mock-heroic poem and some sort of a humorous calendar of this scholastic year...
...tinder. Before war is declared a huge Japanese freighter explodes in Culebra Cut, blocking the Panama Canal for months. A Japanese fleet quickly falls on the Philippines, annihilates the U. S. Asiatic squadron there, lands 100,000 troops, captures Manila in a month. The fall of Guam, after one heroic repulse, drives the U. S. from the western Pacific. A daring Japanese submarine bombards the U. S. coast. Los Angeles and San Francisco are peppered from the sky. Rounding the Horn, the U. S. Scouting force encounters two enemy submarines in the Straits of Magellan, losing two light vessels...
...American War dead be brought home. Our heroic dead cannot rest in peace in the soil of the land that dishonors its obligation to their country. Let empty American military cemeteries be eternal monuments of shame...