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...Pennsylvania 250 persons were stricken during the summer; 18 died. In some places local authorities banned gatherings of young people, postponed the opening of public schools...
...British and U.S. citizens had already left the Settlement. Their firms had transferred their offices to Singapore, Batavia, Manila. Taking their places were hundreds of Germans who had fled from the Philippines and The Netherlands East Indies, and who did not get on well with Shanghai's poverty-stricken colony of 18,000 anti-Nazi refugees. New and strange national quarrels flared up. In a dive on Blood Alley a group of White Russians drinking to Soviet success rioted bloodily with French sailors who objected...
When Muñoz Marin went back to his native Puerto Rico in 1931, he did not like what he saw there. The poverty-stricken jibaros lived in misery and squalor. There were no gay tropical restaurants in Puerto Rico, no swank hotels...
...Through the morning and afternoon, the trucks were leapfrogged, until everybody had had his dose. One man. just out of the hospital at Camp Forrest, Tenn., soon fell out, was trucked into Camp Robinson. During the day about twelve others fell out, were picked up. The stragglers and heat-stricken took emergency treatment from a dentist and a sanitary officer who were also being disciplined. The rest ate plenty of salt against the heat, filled their canteens silently at wayside towns, while the citizenry eyed them with sympathy...
...Stricken. C.I.O.'s Philip Murray, 55; in Pittsburgh. He collapsed while playing badminton, was rushed to Mercy Hospital, where the illness was described evasively as "some kind of spell...