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...into the Red Square, carrying aloft on long poles horrid caricatures of the enemies of Bolshevism, handsome likenesses of its Dictator. At 15° below zero last week, thousands of prospective demonstrators stood shuffling, stamping and blowing on their hands in narrow side streets and alleys adjoining the Kremlin Fortress in which J. Stalin lives, and the Red Square. They were all ready to march in and cheer as soon as the Soviet Supreme Court should hand down its batch of death sentences in the Second Old Bolsheviks' Trial (TIME, Feb.1), and the waiting Moscow crowd had plenty...
...post from Philadelphia to a U. S. Army reservation some 31 mi. southwest of Louisville. Ky. The lady was the Director of the U. S. Mint, Nellie Tayloe Ross. The bricks were about $200,000,000 in gold, the Government's first bullion shipment to its great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox...
...were graduated with Christendom's dizziest rites from a seminary called the Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism, or simply LIFE. Before admiring parents and friends a drop curtain whizzed up revealing the graduating class clad in shiny armor, brandishing swords and spears, manning a huge, realistic fortress. Below its battlements capered Satan, in multi-colored garments, and a horde of red devils bent on storming the "Fortress of Faith." Massed brass bands blared, everybody burst into song and with tremendous enthusiasm the "Defenders of the Faith" rushed down and scattered the forces of evil. More quietly but with smart...
...some early, secret date, with 152 soldiers aboard and thousands more strung along the route, the first of some 50 armored special trains will begin moving 192,000,000 oz. of government gold worth $6,000,000,000 from New York, Philadelphia and other vaults to the great new fortress-vault at Fort Knox, Ky. Ordinary railroad charge for such a haul would be some $200,000. Last week it was revealed that the Treasury would take advantage of government mail contracts, send its gold by registered parcel post. At the standard rate of 10? per oz., the postage bill...
...this work, which was written by Hitler during his imprisonment from November, 1923, to December, 1924, in the fortress of Landsberg, following his unsuccessful attempt to take over the Government of Bavaria, was published on July 18, 1925, in an edition of 10,000 copies which was completely sold out in advance of publication. Vol. II was published on December 10, 1926 (postdated 1927) in an edition of only 8,000 copies, in a binding uniform with the second (revised) edition of Vol. 1, which had already been issued in January of the same year...