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...amendments. Last week the Heimwehr's truculent Reichspost-official mouthpiece of the strongest man in Austria, stern, bald, beak-nosed onetime Chancellor Ignaz Seipel-proposed a bullying solution of the Constitutional issue: Let Parliament be convened in some other city than Socialist Vienna. Heimwehr troops with pistol and bludgeon would then keep the Socialist Deputies from, attending. In their absence the desired amendment would easily pass. By way of pretense that this solution would be legal, the Reichspost quoted Article XXV of the Austrian Constitution: "Under exceptional conditions, Parliament may sit in any other part of Austria away from...
...vigorous, if not too clever, denial of his interpretation of student life at Cambridge. This, we imagine, is just what Mr. Roberts wanted. It would even seem to strengthen a few of the points at which he has been at such pains to whale away with his heavy bludgeon of journalistic humor...
...solini might himself have ordered the crime. After the trial successful Signor Farinacci was allowed to pass into discreet eclipse. Soon his post as Secretary General of the Fascist Party was taken by the present incumbent, harsh but not fanatical Augusto Turati. People were allowed to forget Castor Oil & Bludgeon Man Farinacci. His re-emergence last week on the very pinnacle of power, at the right hand of Il Duce, seemed of black omen for Italy...
Federzoni's potency was greatest shortly after Fascist bludgeon men had done to death the Socialist Deputy and millionaire Giacomo Matteoti-a deed which nearly unseated Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, himself suspected of ordering the crime (TIME, June 23, 1924 et seq.). With the Dictator for once scared and shaky, the King was able to insist that Deputy Luigi Federzoni be made Minister of Home Affairs in charge of the police. Smart guessers think they know that Faithful Federzoni then obtained evidence which he and King Vittorio Emanuele held over Il Duce for years afterwards. Eventually however the Dictator...
...Barbe Blue, with 18 women to his discredit. He was 60, and named Jerome Drat. Through some occult divination the Marseilles poor unequalled for viciousness in all France, decided that the two Barbe Bleus were the same man under different aliases, and prepared to give him a brick-and-bludgeon reception...