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Just how many Austrians wanted their "independence" guaranteed by other nations, the Italians in particular, will never be known, but it is safe to assume that of the 500,000 people who filed past the Dollfuss bier, 300,000 were there to make certain he was dead?not, as you infer, to do him honor...
There were tears in Benito Mussolini's eyes as he put Frau Dollfuss aboard an airplane in which she insisted upon dashing to her husband's bier. Wordlessly Il Duce gripped her hand. He knew that she expects a child within five months. Cried Donna Rachele, weeping as she kissed Frau Dollfuss goodby: "I will take good care of your children. Come back to us soon...
Last week Feisal's body reached Haifa, Palestine. A throng of 15,000 pious Moslems broke through a police cordon, threatened to topple over the official dais, trampled several people in an effort to touch the bier of a 37th-generation descendant of Mohammed. British planes took the body to Bagdad, where a native newspaper was suppressed for ten days for suggesting that Feisal committed suicide. A hundred thousand Arabs attended the royal obsequies. The crowd was so dense and so excited that police barred the palace gates against them, severed a bridge of boats across the Tigris lest...
...funeral of Father Thomas last year Uncle Jan and all the working Bat'a part ners took a solemn vow "in the presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages!" On the bier was laid a bunch of white roses from Thomas Bat'a's son with the inscription : "I prom ise. Tommy." Tommy has kept his promise like the crown prince of shoedom that he is. He lives with his mother and drinks quantities of milk. Aged...
Everyone was gay after the fights. The innkeeper lost account of the debts owed for "noch ein Bier" and we settled up, students' regular procedure, for about 25? on the dollar. On the way back to the station. I was with a crowd of students that was particularly gay: some of the largest fellows used their combined weight to get both the front wheels and the motorman up in the air. B. W. WETHERBEE...