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Last month Boss Long tried to capture the realm of Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans by force of arms. Guardsmen were marched into the city and the vote registry office was taken over by machine-gunners (TIME, Aug. 13). Because the courts tended to interfere with his use of the military in such political rough & tumble, "Kingfish" Long ordered Governor Allen, his office-holding stooge, to call the Legislature of Longsters into special session to legalize and regularize such tactics. Within four days the senior Senator from Louisiana had been given everything he wanted...
Back from the Austrian frontier last week Benito Mussolini withdrew the 50,000 troops, the tanks and field guns that he sent to prevent an Austrian Nazi Putsch after the murder of Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6). Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, Austrian Vice Chancellor, had just reported in Rome to Il Duce that Austria is now quiet. This week the new Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, is due in Italy to attend the annual war games as Premier Mussolini's guest. Last week the Italian troops which marched away from Austria did not march far. Most went back to their...
More than 500 Austrians died in the civil war which Nazis started in Styria Province at the signal of a bullet fired into heroic little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss' spinal cord (TIME, Aug. 6). Last week the new Government of stern, thrifty Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg took the amazing step of compelling one man to pay the entire cost of Styria's civil...
Motoring through Beaconsfield, England, Manhattan's clever Lawyer Fanny Holtzmann careened into a telephone pole, escaped with bruises. "To end the guessing game" which followed her settlement of Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov's libel suit based on the film Rasputin and the Empress (TIME, Aug. 20), Attorney Holtzmann announced that her client would receive $250,000 and costs from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...arch-Republican Record-Herald (evening) and the arch-Democratic Independent (morning) went on strike over wages in mid-May, the capital of Montana had to depend on bulletins, radio, out-of-town newspapers and grapevine gossip for its news. Last fortnight the printers' strike was settled (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week the Record-Herald and the Independent made their reappearance on the streets and in the homes of Helena...