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ROME, Wednesday--Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, on an observation tour of war-torn Europe for President Roosevelt, departed for Berlin at 12.10 A.M. today for conversations with German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop and Chancellor Adolf Hitler which the Italian press believed may have a strong hearing on the future course of the Russo-Finnish conflict and the war between the Allies and Germany...
...Labor involved in extensive and costly disputes, with its organized ranks torn by civil war, and its annual income lower despite higher hourly wage rates...
...leprosarium in the U. S., Carville has sheltered 1,200 patients since the first inmates were carried to its damp slave huts one dark night in 1894. Today, patients live in 45 wooden houses arranged around a quadrangle and linked by roofed plank platforms. These cottages, soon to be torn down, will be replaced by two-story fireproof houses. Last week construction workers started on a recreation building. For the rebuilding of Carville, the U. S. Public Health Service last year appropriated...
...YORK JOURNAL IN 1930 . . . THE CITY ROOM WASHROOM WAS TRANSFORMED. LIQUID SOAP DISPENSERS WERE RIPPED OUT OF THE WASHBASINS, AND RAGGED CHUNKS OF DIRTY BROWN LAUNDRY SOAP LEFT IN THEIR PLACES. THE CLOTH HAND TOWEL MACHINES WERE WRENCHED FROM THE WALLS. AND SPIKES WERE DRIVEN ON WHICH WERE HOOKED TORN BATCHES OF COARSE BROWN WRAPPING PAPER FOR TOWELS. THE LIGHT WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE CEILING AND HOT WATER WAS SHUT OFF. ... I RECALL THE CIRCUMSTANCES VIVIDLY BECAUSE I WAS OUT OF POCKET ABOUT $1,800 ON AN EXPENSE ACCOUNT SHORTLY AFTER VISKNISKKI CAME TO CUT EXPENSES. HENRY PAYNTER Peekskill...
Words struck harshly last night. The audience winced at Hemingway's terse sentences full of meaning. For two hours they sat through unreal seenes torn from the Spanish, Civil War, through rape, death, and gory descriptions. There were ideals and ideas involved and both came off second best. The final curtain left many persons unimpressed or at best uncertain...