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Many a coal miner considers President Lewis a racketeer. That is because he is as ruthless as any political boss in running his organization. Dissenters are put down with fist and foot. Every U. M. W. election brings its charge that ballot boxes have been stuffed with Lewis votes from locals which exist only on paper...
...Minas Geraes, Brazil, prospectors on the banks of the Saobento River reported finding seven huge diamonds, one of which weighed over 2,000 carats-second largest diamond ever found.- About the size of a man's fist, a 2,000-carat blue-white diamond is worth...
...when Chancellor Dollfuss wore his wartime uniform for the first time (TIME, May 29) Major Fey, Minister of the Austrian Government, knocked three Nazis unconscious with his own ochsenknüttel. For months wiseacres have spotted him as the country's future dictator, a post that the two-fisted Major does not want. He is still personally loyal to Engelbert Dollfuss, wants him to be the Dictator leaving the Major in the post he holds now, the fist of the dictatorship, freed from its responsibilities. For Prince von Starhemberg, his immediate superior, he has an ideal solution. Like Hungary...
...quiet, cool-headed Pennsylvanian of 55, was put in charge of all naval vessels in Cuban waters. He went ashore at Havana, had his picture taken with Ambassador Welles, returned to his flagship and, while his sailors lusted for action, sat by awaiting orders to let the iron fist fly or pocket it. Within three days a dozen destroyers encircled Cuba, with another dozen awaiting steaming orders. The Mississippi hovered off Morro Castle. All available ships on the Atlantic Coast were on the move. At Quantico the 7th Regiment of Marines, Colonel Richard P. ("Terrible Terry") Williams commanding, studied maps...
Making clear that Prussia will ruthlessly suppress Jews, Communists or even Nazi Storm Troopers who show symptoms of disobedience. Premier Göring declared: "I have determined to intervene with an iron fist! ... It has been shown that the enemies of the State were only pretending to be dead. . . . Whoever in the future lays violent hands on an official of the State, a policeman or a Storm Trooper, must know that he will pay for it in the briefest possible time. ... It is entirely beside the point whether the act is followed by death or merely leads to injury...