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...police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering a campaign speech (TIME, March 2, 1936 et seq.}. Last week Puerto Rico's dread disease of violence had its bloodiest irruption to date...
...with the same super-service from Stalin's NKVD. When rich Mr. Davies liked a picture in a State store so well that he paid 5,000 rubles smack down for it last week-nominally $1,000-J. Stalin's Sherlocks began muttering among themselves. These dread Soviet police sent for a nervous Russian art expert, he appraised the picture as worth 800 rubles, and the NKVD cracked down on the Ukranian State shop. It promptly disgorged 4,200 rubles and this "refund" NKVD agents beamingly carried to Capitalist Davies in his private...
Optimistic were the 1937 economic surveys of China's great Shanghai banks. They pointed out that New Year's is the day on which Chinese businessmen expect each other to have all outstanding debts settled, rejoiced that 1937's dread "settlement day" last week brought not a single Shanghai business or bank failure. As every Chinese shivers to recall, the 1935 and 1936 settlement days bristled with seemingly catastrophic bankruptcies, "but China, like England, always muddles through...
...programs and perhaps chairs would have rained over the ropes. Such was the respect for the sudden death in Louis' left fist, such the sympathy for Pastor, outweighed 203 Ib. to 179 and regarded as a rabbit in a box with a rattlesnake, that the crowd lived the dread of every second with Pastor, watching the quick twitching motions of Louis' fists, starting, like a snake's tongue, only to draw back. Such was the suspense that a cheer rose with the gong that ended the first round. When Louis did start hitting, the agile Pastor made...
...everyone knows, George V once almost died of pneumonia and long suffered from bronchitis (TIME, Dec. 3, 1928 et seq.}. This experience magnified in his mind the dread which all Englishmen have of respiratory diseases, chief causes of disability in England...