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...Lima fiery little Provisional President Luis Sanchez Cerro thought the troops were on their way to crush the revolt at Arequipa (TIME, March 2), proud "Queen City of the South...
...short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle that Camera, punching almost vertically, was trying to crush. He sidestepped many of Camera's left leads but could not get out of the way of the ponderous rights aimed at his body. Camera could slap down his guard and plank a punch over. He did not seem at first to be trying very hard. In the eighth round...
Twenty-five thousand Jewish protestants against the "Passfield Declaration" on Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 & 10) introduced themselves by main force last week into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (capacity 20,000). Perspiring police worked furiously to thin out the crush, finally drove a police car gently but firmly across the packed arena, ejecting by this means some 500 standees...
...immaculate evening clothes, Banker-Zionist Felix Moritz Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) and other Jewish leaders addressed the crush from a platform draped with the Stars & Stripes. Irish little James John Walker was introduced as "The Mayor of the Greatest Jewish City in the History of the World." His keynote: "My message to Downing Street is, 'I wish we had twice as many Jews in New York as we have...
Diver Alberto (from depths where pressure is enough to crush a human body to paste): "Nothing. I can see only two yards in front...