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...decked dais and waived the formality of a roll call. It did not matter who was present, since everyone was going to vote "Ja." To set all Germany an example of speed, General Goring startlingly dispensed with even the Nazi anthem, the "Horst Wessel Song" (see col. 1). In crisp, commanding sentences, shouted in parade ground tones, Speaker Goring "requested" the Deputies to leap to their feet in unison when they wished to signify approval. Popping up and down like a roomful of marionets, the Reichstag transacted all business of the week in seven and a half minutes flat...
...week that the Dictator had shushed the U. S. feature length film Mussolini Speaks, banned it from ever being shown in Italy. Patched together from newsreel shots, it parades for over an hour the electrifying facial mannerisms of Orator Mussolini (see cut) (TIME, March 20). The Dictator's crisp reason for shushing Mussolini Speaks: "Not timely enough"- all of the patched-together shots being perforce somewhat old. When Patcher-Together Jack Cohn sought to see II Duce in Rome, expecting praise, he was politely accorded the briefest audience, was not asked even to sit down...
Jackson got a ladder and climbed up to the Duke's window, calling "Where is Your Grace?" There was no answer, much smoke and belching flame. Hours later a policeman found burned to a crisp in "The Heronry's" pantry all that was left of Prince Louis. Said Mr. McCormick to newsmen: "I think the Duke, blinded by smoke, missed his way to the stairs, blundered into a corner room and was overcome. When the floor was burned through the body must have fallen into the pantry below...
Sirs: It is to be regretted that ideals once formed should be shattered and fine conceptions overturned. In the past TIME has won its way to public favor through its accuracy in presenting current events in a crisp, snappy and concise style, and in giving to its readers information in tabloid form, and thus vitalizing its news, rather than fictitious stories, interesting because they are scurrilous...
...oldest Federal buildings, in a colored district of Washington sits a short, neat, ruddy man of 53 with a flowing black tie and crisp-curling grey hair, a man with the air of a preacher or an actor. He is the best hated man in Washington. He once ruled that a traveling Government official could not tip a redcap more than 25? for two bags. He refused to honor a $15 Navy Department expense account for an official wreath at a State funeral. He once argued for months with a railroad over a 35? claim, and won. He refused...