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...started in as a youth when, on the steps of the local court, he killed the prefect of Jassy. His biggest job came in 1933 when he plotted, but did not take part in, the assassination of Premier Ion Duca. Three of those who pulled their triggers at Premier Duca were among the dead 14 last week. Tried several times, incarcerated fewer times, Leader Codreanu's defense was invariably superpatriotism. Until recently Rumanian law prescribed no death penalty. Well might a Fascist leader, at a time when Fascism was fast engulfing Eastern Europe, look upon a jail sentence...
...awfullest bus accident anybody ever saw. Sixteen of the 38 children somehow got out alive. But three of them were horribly injured, one dying three days later. Driver Silcox was dead. No bus crash had ever cost so much life; the last biggest at Salem, Ill., March, 1937, took 20 lives. Utah's Public Service Commission, painfully aware of the danger that lay athwart the State's other 2,054 unprotected grade crossings, sought jurisdiction over all the State's school buses, planned to delegate to one older student in each bus the job of flagging...
Rose Bowl. Biggest portion of gravy is in the Rose Bowl. Chosen to share this year's gate receipts (about $300,000 split three ways among the contestants and the sponsor) are Southern California and Duke University. Last week Southern California made this game trebly exciting by outplaying Notre Dame...
...biggest wastepaper converters in the East, Clifton is a family-owned business. The family is the Desiderios, father and seven sons. Frank Desiderio, a strapping, grey-haired Italian, arrived in the U. S. in 1904, penniless, unemployed, unable to speak English. On borrowed money he bought a pushcart, tramped Newark's streets collecting wastepaper. In two years he had a horse and wagon, traded them for a two-cylinder Autocar in 1918. By 1926 the Desiderios owned a 100-truck fleet. When the old Clifton firm went bankrupt six years ago, they turned up with a batch of uncollected...
...Italian immigrant, A. P. symbolizes to millions of depositors the small man who has lifted himself up without toadying to "the interests." Conversely, most of the interests hate the Giannini guts. The nation's biggest branch banker, he is notably scornful of Wall Street, has enjoyed nothing more than annoying its orthodox banking fraternity by backing New Deal financial policies. Wall Street was therefore enormously delighted last week because the New Deal had bit the only big banking hand that ever...