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...Restaurant in Seattle's crowded White Russian colony, gazed out of the window to see why her dog barked. She saw a shadowy figure kindling a fire against the frame walls of the old Russian Orthodox Church where she worshipped each Sunday. Russian patrons raced out of the café, pounced upon Robert Bruce Driscoll...
...speed of 150 m. p. h. It cost 5,000,000 rubles (currently $4,350,000) furnished by popular subscription, took two years to build, contained a complete photographic studio, photo-engraving plant, electrically-driven rotary printing press (capacity: 8,000 newspapers per hour), broadcasting studio, sound cinema equipment, café-lounge, electric power plant, 16 telephones, observation saloon, business office, sleeping quarters, powerful loudspeaker system. Its chief use: propaganda...
Next there was the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. The Prefecture of Police covered it up with an awning and attached a large bronze fig leaf. Infuriated students rioted in the cemetery, led a parade down the boulevards to the Café Royale. The leader wore the fig leaf like a medal around his neck...
...Customers are photographed coming out of Jewish shops. Placards announcing 'Jews not wanted' are displayed in cafés and restaurants. 'Jewish students enter here at their own risk,' reads a notice at the door of the Technical School. Jews cannot attend the theatre, opera or motion pictures without risk of insult. Oldtime friends are afraid to visit or greet them in the street. Nowhere else are they so cut off from normal life or subjected to such economic boycott and social ostracism...
...Venizelos were taken, wounded but miraculously alive, from their bullet-riddled limousine (TIME, June 19. 1933), Greeks have been expecting the trial of Gangster Georgios Karathanasios if it ever began to end in a revolution. Before his belated arrest last October, Gangster Karathanasios boasted openly in Athens' cafés: "The Government will protect me!" Witnesses against Prisoner Karathanasios were kidnapped, beaten and their homes in some instances bombed. As popular exasperation mounted, the Government last week appointed a new prosecutor who called 600 witnesses and announced "justice will be done...