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...Brooklyn Tuberculosis Association. When ''Farmer John" McCooey was shown the pamphlet, he let out a disarming chuckle: ''Why shouldn't the school children have this book? It would prove an inspiration to them to see how the Democratic leaders Lave succeeded . . . (thumbing the leaves). . . . Ho-ho! Here's us highbinders, big as life . . . (spotting his own picture). . . . Ho-ho! Just look at that now. I remember that picture very well. I sort of look like William Howard Taft there but he was a larger...
...monster dragons, alternately benevolent and merciless, writhe completely across China in the shape of her two mightiest rivers, the Yangtze which Chinese call "Long River," and the Hwang Ho ("Yellow River"), each more than 2,500 miles long. Last week China's rain gods were pouring destructive torrents into the two River Dragons' veins. Mad with fear, myriads of peasants and town dwellers remembered that as recently as 1931 the Hooding Yangtze chased 10,000,000 Chinese from their homes and killed 140,000 by drowning alone-not to mention the ensuing famine: the greatest disaster of modern...
...airless clubroom the Moscow Boys took up their instruments and played jazz as they had never played before. They played a waltz, then several French and English foxtrots. The young workers, most of whom were hearing jazz for the first time, were exhilarated but confused. Then Tsfasman called for "Ho Hum," popular three years ago in the U. S. When it was finished the audience cried for an encore. Jazzman Tsfasman had all but won his case. He ended with a rumba...
...troops hopped into armored trains and rushed up the coast after the withdrawing Japanese, reoccupying village after village. And before the coast troops' withdrawal could be interpreted as a grand Chinese victory, the Japanese right wing suddenly commenced a slashing inland attack on the Chinese troops of General Ho Ying-ching. 60 mi. from Peiping. The latter dug in against airplanes and siege guns and fought like alley cats. After an eight-day battle that cost China 4,600 admitted casualties, Japan occupied Nantienmen. For the first time Japanese officers admitted that Peiping might be the next objective...
...same time the return of George M. Cohan with his "Pigeons and People" and the continuing of the amazingly effective Negro review "Hi-De-Ho," at the Wilbur, while of secondary importance, still rank high...