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Revolutions broke out in the north and interior of Haiti and were put down, the natives say, by unnecessarily brutal methods. A corvee system was instituted to build roads, but this administration, too, brought bitter complaint. The fact that much of the American personnel spoke no French and most of the natives no English naturally impeded progress and cooperation...
...language, like that of the Andaman Island pigmies, was uniquely their own. Others of these minuscule peoples, whom bigger intruders have driven from their original homes along the Congo, have learned the speech of their neighbors wherever they have secreted themselves successfully enough to persist-in Africa's interior, along the upper Congo, in Ceylon, the Bay of Bengal, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines...
Good-hearted Russians grinned when Secretary Wilbur of the U. S. Department of the Interior, skirting Statesman Stimson's official position of not recognizing Moscow, appealed personally, unofficially to the Soviet Government for help for U. S. Flyer Carl Ben Eielson, lost along the coast of Siberia, spurred Alaska's acting Governor Karl Theile to send frantic appeals to two Soviet ships in Siberian waters. Russians were aware that already blunt Senator Borah had cabled for aid directly to Soviet Acting Foreign Minister Litvinov...
...little girl wrote him asking for an autograph and advising him that fashion favored beards.* Lincoln replied that he thought it would be "a piece of silly affectation," but on his inauguration day appeared with clumpy black chin whiskers. A cartoon of that day shows a drug store interior with a sign over the door, bearing the legend: "Agency for the Lincoln Whiskeropherous." On a table is a smirking bust of the hirsute...
Last week also Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Eielson's close friend, asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, "the man I know best in the Cabinet," somehow to ask the Soviets to put their Siberian representatives on the hunt, particularly those at the Wrangel Island meteorological station and on the ships Lipke and Stavropol. It was a ticklish request, for the U. S. and Russia have no diplomatic relations. Secretary Wilbur immediately asked the Soviet Government for aid, through its Washington information bureau. He also sent telegrams to Territorial Governor George Alexander Parks at Juneau, urging...