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...distraught women; doctors and lawyers who had lost their practices; men who had been in concentration camps. There were 500 women on board. There was Max Loewe, a lawyer, with his wife and two children. There were 150 other children, 106 of them under ten. In the strange, fear-ridden, hope-ridden atmosphere of refugee ships, compounded of anxiety, relief, tension, they waited, living until their voyage's end under the terrible shadow of the red & black swastika ensign that flew from the stern...
...flames; the wolves of capitalism howl among the ruins!" They dropped their rigorous membership requirements only when Denikin was marching on Moscow, when membership, involving danger above everything, could appeal only to revolutionists. When the civil war ended they were masters of the country-a starving, typhus-ridden, spent and ruined country that lay, in "chaos and old night," from the steppes of the South to the black, reckless, European plain...
...mayors of New York City, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Louisville, Ky. and Amarillo, Tex. appeared last week before Representative Woodrum's sub-committee which is looking into WPA's past before appropriating for its 1940 future.* To the mayors' debt-ridden cities, WPA is a fairy godmother and they are her loyal courtiers. All the mayors were unanimous that: 1) WPA must go on, 2) work relief must not be returned to the States & municipalities, 3) WPA has done a great job of permanent value. This year there was a sober note in their pleas...
France. Across the Channel in Paris a speech by Premier Edouard Daladier, who has virtually taken over the conduct of foreign relations from appeasement-seeking Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, got unanimous cheers in the Chamber of Deputies the like of which has not been heard in that dissension-ridden House for many a month. After speaking of immense mobilizations in neighboring countries, M. Daladier scornfully cried...
...Fitzsimmons, who had saddled both Mr. Wood ward's previous Derby winners. To "Mr. Fitz," as he is known to all racing folk, went 10% of the prize money. Another 10% went to Jockey Jimmy Stout, who had won his first Kentucky Derby al though he had ridden a favorite twice be fore. An hour later, while Louisville toasted Johnstown as another War Admiral, another Exterminator, another Man o' War, the big bay received his reward: three quarts of oats, a quart of carrots and three kinds...