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...from the mind and the heart of a woman. Clara Barton was in her own person and her own life all that the Red Cross has since become. . . . The Johnstown flood found her ready and within an hour after it was reported she was on her way to the stricken city. . . . Clara Barton did not look to government for support of her work. Governments are always too slow, frequently too shortsighted, to meet the sudden sharp demands of critical emergencies. She depended upon the instant response of the individual human heart. . . . The Red Cross is a living embodiment...
...sufficiently cut price anything can be sold. Famine-stricken China, too poor to buy $1 wheat, 50? wheat, or even 25? wheat, would gladly eat up the whole world surplus if offered 10? wheat or 5? wheat. As Samuel Roy McKelvie, wheat member of the U. S. Federal Farm Board, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska, chief U. S. delegate to the London Wheat Conference said last week...
Puerto Cabezas, with its 300 U. S. residents, was panic-stricken at the news of the Logtown raid. Next came news that Sandino's bandits had fired Gracias a Dios, 60 mi. north along the Mosquito Coast. Puerto Cabezas knew it would be next. Women and children crowded aboard the Cefalu. In the harbor civilians armed themselves for the town's defense. The night was wild with rumor. Welcome indeed were the lights of the U. S. gunboat Asheville steaming in with a detachment of Marines. These were gingerly put ashore, thereby relieving a slim force of native Guardsmen...
...this sum to be spent on unemployment relief, the remaining $30,000,000 to succor Australia's stricken wheat farmers...
Died. General Lazaro Chacon, 56, President of Guatemala who, stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage, resigned last December (TIME, Dec. 29); after a paralytic stroke; in New Orleans, La. He became Provisional President in 1926, following the death of President Jose Maria Orellana, was soon elected for a full six-year term. Quiet, businesslike, he governed ably, suspended the Constitution once, kept Guatemala's perennial rebels in check until his physical breakdown. Four Presidents have followed: Dr. Baudilio Palma, General Manuel Orellana. Dr. Jose Maria Reina Andrade, General Jorge Ubico...