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...until sundown trying to make a living for my family and it ended in death for me. You take big people as the President, Governors, judge, their children dont never have to suffer. They has plenty of money. . . . The penitentiary all over the United States are fulp of people ho was pore tried to work and have something, couldnt so that maid them steel...
...educators, with 28,000 big & little wigs as members. Ever since the fraternity wrote its constitution in 1911, restricting membership to "white males of good character," there has been wig-pulling over this clause. Two years ago the Ohio State chapter ruled that Negro George Wright and Chinese Dai Ho-chun were "white men" despite the color of their skin, admitted them as members. The chapter was promptly suspended by Phi Delta Kappa's national council...
Died. Frank Churchill, 40, hit tune composer (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?; Heigh Ho; Whistle While You Work); by his own hand (shooting); near Newhall, Calif. He had been composing for Walt Disney for eleven years. A suicide note to his wife read: "My nerves have completely left me. Please forgive me for this awful act." Churchill's songs included one called Happy as a Lark, another called The Sunny Side of Things...
...This is no secondary front," cries Expert Kiralfy. "It is a second prime front. Wishfulness cannot change this unquestionable definition, but military science can convert it into a victorious front." Northward-Ho. How? Says Author Kiralfy: "There is a homely saying to the effect that if the harness breaks and no other is available, string should be used. . . . Many harnesses have been broken, so much string will have to be used." The particular string with which Kiralfy would bend his bow is an Allied invasion of Japan from the half-Russian island of Sakhalin. Sakhalin is almost within firing distance...
Chungking fell back to horse & buggy days. High officials began riding rickshas to set a good example; Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung and War Minister Ho Ying-chin apologized publicly for the extravagant motoring of subordinates. The Minister of Communications set up a "bus" line of brightly painted two-wheel carts drawn by stubborn little Szechwan ponies. Most commercial trucks and private cars were withdrawn from the road...