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...suspect crackbrain to official sanity just as sound as any other German's nowadays, and also to official greatness, was accomplished last week by Adolf Hitler. He and Ludendorff conspired together for the Munich "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923, marching down the street at the head of their henchmen toward Power- they hoped. When police began shooting to disrupt the putsch, they carefully did not aim at Hero Ludendorff who walked through their fusillade iron-faced, nor was Herr Hitler shot. Knowing that the police would aim at him well and truly, he dropped to his knees and skedaddled...
...join their "association," pay tribute of some $2,000,000 per year. Not seriously disputing the picture drawn by Prosecutor Herlands and his witnesses, the seven defendants mostly whined that they had been the innocent or terrorized dupes of the real racketeers-the late Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer & henchmen. It took the jury less than five hours last week to decide that these excuses were nonsense. It found every defendant guilty on every count, enabling Justice Philip J. McCook to sentence each one, if he so chooses next week, to 200-to-300 years in prison. As the jury foreman...
...Alliance ("waiters' union"); two of a local of A. F. of L.'s Delicatessen & Restaurant Countermen & Employes ("cafeteria workers") Union. Nine others had been named in the indictment. Three of them were fugitives. Four more were Dutch Schultz, reputed founder of the restaurant racket, one of his henchmen and two union leaders-all dead by violence. An eighth was the late president of the Cafeteria Workers local, dead by his own hand last December while awaiting trial. The ninth, reputed collector and No. 2 man of the racket, pleaded guilty on the first day of the trial...
...point analysis of how it happens that in the Soviet Union there is so much abject confessing of whatever it would do the Dictator good to have confessed. Mr. Lyons, veteran of innumerable Moscow trials, says in sum that Soviet prisoners who do not succeed in convincing the henchmen of Justice that they can be depended on to confess fairly convincingly in open court are never brought to trial at all, just taken downstairs and shot. Justice today, in Russian cases of importance, according to Mr. Lyons, does not in the great majority of cases ever reach a courtroom. Scores...
Meanwhile in Italy the King & Queen and Crown Prince & Crown Princess entertained the Görings, and this week they were to holiday briefly in romantic Capri, always a magnet for sentimental German tourists. In the interval, boastful henchmen talked openly of "forcing the resignation" of Jewish-Socialist French Premier Leon Blum, next "detaching" France from her Soviet alliance, and finally "restoring" Britain, Germany, France and Italy to comradeship under the big tent of II Duce's recently quiescent Four-Power-Pact (TIME, April 10, 1933 et seq.). They bragged as if there were of course enough Might handy...