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...vehicle was stopped by red traffic lights or his horses veered off to graze at curb grass, the old man would stand up on the buggy seat and exhort passing citizens-workers from the foundries, the machine shops, the glass factories, attendants at the State Insane Asylum, farmers from Stark County-to vote for him as Republican nominee for Mayor. With the fervor of an evangelist promising heaven, the old campaigner in his stand-up collar and wide-brimmed black hat promised Massillon a new municipal water works and reduced water rates if he were elected...
...rained and rained in the mountains of Tibet last month and last fortnight floods swept China. Flood waters of the Yangtze reached a new high level-52 ft, 9 in. Villages were swept away. Yellow waters spread out to cover 12%, of the arable land in the valley. A stark report came from the stricken district to Nanking: THE AUTUMN CROP IS RUINED. 23 MILLIONS ARE HOMELESS...
...Gandhi has always said that the grinding poverty of India's half-starved masses is the root-evil of the whole Indian question. Last week the Royal Commission reported that "stark poverty" is the "major reason" for the Indian laborer's "comparative inefficiency...
...Secretary Joslin; John Marshall, 11, and Grace, children of Hoover Secretary Newton. Peggy Ann's father was there too, plump-cheeked and heavier, out for his first fun since his convalescence at Asheville. Because they were "circus-minded" Mrs. Hoover also took along her White House guests, Mrs. Stark McMullin of Palo Alto and Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium...
...kill," confessed the Düsseldorf Murderer with stark simplicity. "Anybody would do as a victim. It was all the same to me whether they were women or girls or children...