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...Herald Tribune as a Wall Street reporter. His toughest assignment was the 1929 crash. In 1934 he quit reporting to write Imperial Hearst, which was successful enough to maintain him and his Vassar-graduate wife in a bookish Manhattan apartment. With the help of General Johnson and Secretary of Interior Ickes, who used the title for the theme of his attack on monopolies, America's 60 Families shot into the best-selling shelf...
...talk Bernard is expected to comment on recent speeches by the President, Assistant Attorney General Jackson, and Secretary of the Interior Haroldd W. Ickes in relation to possible legislative action by the House...
...over the U. S., $400,000 was raised (wiping out the deficit of the Democratic Party) and New Deal spokesmen let out a chorus of oratory matchless in volume. Unfortunately the Jackson Day chorus-instead of proving an overwhelming performance for which the antimonopoly speeches of Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson last fortnight were a curtain raiser-turned out mainly as a majestic anticlimax...
...were completely wiped out in a series of anti-Red campaigns. But in both right & left reports, Soviet China seemed less a geographical and political reality than a wandering country like Swift's floating Laputa. At one time this nomad-land was located in Hunan Province in the interior, then in Kiangsi in southeast China. When Chiang Kai-shek's army took Juichin, its capital, in 1934, Soviet China disappeared, only to pop up a year later in the northwest. A comparable feat would have been for Mexican revolutionists, defeated in Yucatan, to move their capital to British...
...dominance. Not so, says Edgar Snow. He quotes Mao's prophecy that even though Japan should occupy half of China and blockade the coast, "we would still be far from defeated." As in fighting Chiang Kaishek, Communist Mao would retreat & retreat, luring the lengthening Japanese columns into the interior, trusting that time and guerrilla tactics would finally snap the tightening thread of Japanese morale...