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...last week Adolf Hitler, who dotes on Wagnerian music and surrounds himself with portraits and busts of Bismarck and Frederick the Great, had set forth nothing which could be called a program of what his Government intends to do for and with Germany. From now until April Fool's Day (on which the new Reichstag will convene) Chancellor Hitler intends to rule virtually as a dictator. According to Nazi henchmen, the Reichstag will transact only two pieces of business: it will give Germany a new national flag, will then "adjourn indefinitely...
...that the cinema owner ought to have been beheaded. For his crime the Act invoked last week provides Death by the axe. It was passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth especially to cause the beheading of such troublesome Scottish flag-flyers as Mary Queen of Scots. No fool, the young Duke of Norfolk knew better last week than to order, "Off with his head...
...Kupei Pass!" Frantically Chinese troops of the Peiping garrison rushed to obey orders and thus shut Jehol's luckless Chinese defenders out of China. Commandeering motor cars, trucks, carts and 10,000 Peiping rickshaws & coolies, the Young Marshal's troops sped 50 mi. to the Wall. No fool, War Lord Tang did not himself try to slip in from Jehol, but 242 motor trucks loaded with his "treasures" reached the Wall. Promptly the treasures vanished...
...with fear (as well they might be) hundreds of Japanese Peiping residents as well as North Chinese piled onto trains bound for Central China and Shanghai whither 3,882 cases of Manchu treasures were lately shipped from Peiping by the "Young Marshal," no fool (TIME...
Chance also smiled that night on Rex Saffer, Associated Pressman. He was standing directly in front of Zangara who fired over Saffer's left shoulder, scorching his coat. At first Newshawk Saffer thought it was "some fool firing blank cartridges." Not until he saw Mayor Cermak drop did he realize what was happening. Then he wriggled out of the crowd, raced by Mr. Roosevelt who was calling out "I'm all right," and dove to a telephone under the park bandstand to send a flash...