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...smashed typewriters, destroyed pamphlets and papers. A pleased and approving populace looked on from a safe distance. Five minutes after the raiders left police arrived on the scene to clean up. One Communist meeting place after another was similarly visited by the "vigilantes." In each case police arrived immediately afterward to mop up. Police arrested over 300 men and women found in Communist quarters. Of the first no tried, five proved to be aliens without proper admission papers or with criminal records, were sent to Angel Island for deportation. Some 20 U. S. citizens with criminal records were sentenced...
...collapsible rubber boat Professor Borden and his wife Marie are on a "paddle tour." Last week they were paddling a few miles from Istanbul in the general direction of Greece. A storm came up and they sought shelter on the Turkish shore. "Our only weapon," said Professor Borden afterward, "was a toy pistol to frighten away savage dogs...
...London stage, Noel Coward, acting in his latest play-with-music, Conversation Piece, fell gravely ill, insisted on finishing his part. Afterward surgeons performed an appendectomy in what they called "the nick of time." Dodging newshawks in California Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told her breathless pursuers: "If I had charge of the Dillinger search, I would call off the police and send reporters after him?they would be sure to find...
...joined Peary's Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1897. The next summer he hunted polar bear in Hudson Bay. After graduating from Yale in 1903, he spent a year touring and buying horses in Arabia. He was a major in the U. S. Army during the War. Afterward, he entered his father's tool manufacturing firm of Manning. Maxwell & Moore, became its president...
Observers wondered if the law would prevent a perfume advertiser from spraying his newspaper copy with scent, as did one enterprising perfumer nearly 20 years ago in Humboldt County, California. Copies of that edition of the Eureka Humboldt Standard reeked for months afterward...