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...Asama Maru, whose passports they proceeded to check. One German hid in the ship's false funnel, another in a barrel, but the boarding party seized and removed 21 others, all of them able-bodied seamen of military age, former Standard Oil employes being returned to Germany via Japan and Siberia. Japan promptly kicked...
...will is that of big Endicott Johnson Corp.'s 18,000 employes for their boss. The oldest among them have known him since the company was a pup. They all call him "George F." They share profits with E. J. stockholders, since 1938 have shared losses as well (via 15% pay cuts). They dance in the great George F. Pavilion at Johnson City, worship in churches to which George F. generously contributes, get free treatment from George F.'s doctors at George F.'s hospitals, swim in George F.'s public pools. Many live in houses...
...Russian divisions lead other nations to think she needed no help. But help on a small scale became more concrete each day. The French Government announced that not only was it shipping material to the Finns but that Italy and Spain were also sending arms, airplanes and volunteers via France - in Spain's case, shipping Russian material that had been captured in the Civil War. (This was promptly denied in Madrid.) Argentina authorized the shipment of 50,000 tons of wheat to Finland, that country to pay when she pleased. Both Brazil and Colombia announced donations of coffee...
...advisers and to plan for possible future collaboration, 2,000 Italian military experts, a body of French engineers, a British mission were at work. The British were said to be at Goteborg, Sweden, to examine the chances of landing British troops in Sweden via the Skaggerak...
...Year's Day Mutual Broadcasting System put on a thumping show for its listeners. For a full hour it recalled, via recordings, the men & events that made 1939 a momentous year in history. Listeners heard the quivering voice of Tom Mooney, free at last in the California sun. They listened to a Cavalier officer's clipped story of his ship's disaster, thrilled to the drama of the Squalus rescue work. They heard a new Pope proclaimed. They heard three men launch a war. And, as conductor of this medley of events, they heard the cool, trenchant...