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...disease killed 1,065, cerebralhemorrhage 365, pneumonia 312, hardening of the arteries 252, kidney ailments 237, cancer 236, blood poisoning 45, influenza 36. Sixty-four committed suicide (most by shooting, only five by poisoning); 139 were killed accidentally (two took overdoses of medicine; one caught his head in a drawer of a wardrobe trunk; one overbaked himself in an electric cabinet...
...Germany today, the man who foresaw this crisis, brought it on and was confidently prepared last week to deal with it, was not at the fateful interview. Generalleutnant Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense, sat at his desk in the War Office fingering a paper in his desk drawer which he has had drawn up for days. If published, it will declare martial law throughout Germany, and the indefinite suspension of the Reichstag and parliamentary government. Pleasant, unassuming Kurt von Schleicher was born in Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, in 1882. In 1900 he entered the army...
...asked the clerk on duty for a Mr. Brown. They were informed that there was no such person in the club. "Well," drawled one of the young men, "I guess you can give us what we want." What they wanted was the contents of the club's cash drawer. They got it, $196 of Republican money. Happily for the club, of which President Hoover is a member, a taxicab driver saw the robbers hastily enter another cab, grew suspicious, summoned policemen, gave chase. Captured, the bold youths said their names were Robert A. Cornell and George Evdochminor. Four days...
...Corps, as "national defense editor" of Aero Digest. In his editorial column "Air?Hot & Otherwise" Publisher Tichenor consistently baits Senator Hiram Bingham, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the National Aeronautic Association, occasionally the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. He has been known to take a revolver (empty) from a drawer and lay it on his desk while interviewing truculent callers...
...Lansing, Ill., two men entered the Oak Glen Trust & Savings Bank. One was calm, swart, carried a machinegun. The other, nervous, blond, dapper, carried a pistol. The nervous blond was too embarrassed to take money from the cashier's drawer. Said his colleague: "Open the drawer, you lug." Later the blond's gun-hand shook so violently the gun discharged, the bullet going into the floor. Shouted his colleague, no longer calm: "You heat head, put that gun away before you shoot yourself." Said the blond, calmer now: "Quit picking on me. I'm doing the best...