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...logical playmate for Fascist Pelley was Carl Losey. He joined Indiana's Ku Klux Klan in its heyday in 1923. Klansman Losey sported the first bulletproof vest in Indiana, served as a personal bodyguard for Imperial Grand Dragon David Curtis Stephenson, who was convicted of second-degree murder at Noblesville in 1925, is now serving a life term in the penitentiary. Fiftyish Carl Losey looks ten years younger, always carries a heavy-calibre revolver. Graduate of no law school, he is a member of the Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Strange Doings in Noblesville | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Dictators have bulletproof railway cars and last week Carol Hohenzollern, royal dictator of Rumania for the last two and a half years, barely escaped alive from his country as lead spat against the armored sides of his speeding private train. The loyalty to this Hohenzollern of a simple Rumanian stationmaster at Timisoara was all that saved Carol II from the wrath of his bitter people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: God Help Your Majesty | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...Alcott took to the air at the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. Tokyo has lost face almost every time he has opened his mouth. Last week he was one of the six Americans whom Japan's puppet Chinese Government "ordered" expelled from China. Last week, in a bulletproof vest that fitted snugly around his 220-lb. frame, Alcott was still holding forth over Station XMHA, on Race Course Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Newscaster of Shanghai | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Early this year the Japanese attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Newscaster of Shanghai | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Products: Aircraft parts, equipment and accessories, armor plate, non-shatterable or bulletproof glass, optically clear plastics, optical elements for fire control, aircraft instruments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Bars Go Up | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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