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...When important decrees are issued they are signed for the Party by Stalin and for the State by chubby but earnest and intense Premier Vyacheslav Michailovich Molotov (M in the cut). His real name is Scriabine, Lenin's was Ulyanov and Stalin's is Dzhugashvili (pronounced "zoo-gash-vee-lee"). Soviet leaders are proud of their violent, revolutionary records which the Tsarist police could only class as criminal. Stalin, many times a bank robber (to get funds for the Party) and assassin of Tsarist officials, is especially proud of his alias Stalin, meaning "Steel...
Battling desperately to sell Indians cotton cloth, Japanese and Britons gash each other with the sharp trade swords of a steadily falling Japanese yen, a steadily rising Empire tariff. Last week Japan's yen had slumped 50% below par, but Britons had more than retaliated by raising the duty on Japanese and other non-British cotton cloth entering India six times since 1930, the last time by an added...
...Philadelphia, after receiving a severe forehead gash when his automobile collided with a truck, Chevalier Jackson, 67, famed surgeon and bronchoscope inventor, gave first aid to the unconscious truck driver, proceeded to Temple University Hospital, performed three operations before colleagues persuaded him to go home...
...silver medal in a garden contest last year, and which they hoped would win a gold medal this year. Suddenly an automobile bounded from the road, crossed the curb, plunged into the garden, ripped through vines and hedges, plowed up flower beds, gouged an eight-foot gash in the side of the house, tore away the ivy that had been trained up the wall since 1914, uprooted a four-ton stepping stone, piled up against a maple tree. Out of the automobile, unhurt, stepped its driver, hulking Author Theodore Dreiser...
Died. Harry Wright Rogers, 36, pioneer pilot, oldtime airline operator; of a jugular gash received in his first serious crash in 17 years of spectacular flying: near the Glenn Curtiss Airport (of which he was operations manager), Long Island. Died. Mrs. Winifred Finlay Fosdick, wife of Lawyer Raymond Elaine Fosdick; by her own hand (pistol), after shooting her children, Susan, 15, and Raymond Elaine Jr., 10, to death in their sleep; in Montclair, N. J. Reason: homicidal mania growing out of a progressive form of paranoia for which she had been under treatment for several years. Brother of Manhattan...