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...polls to select two Congressmen, a State Supreme Court judge and a Public Service commissioner, Senator Huey Pierce Long had mobilized Louisiana's entire national guard to insure a "clean election." He had also made his Legislature pass enough laws month before to turn over to his henchmen complete control of the electoral machinery (TIME, Aug. 27). No match for the "Kingfish" in legislative wiles, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley had an augmented police force of 2,000 which nearly equalled Senator Long's militant manpower...
...Schacht refuses to understand," wailed a close friend of Dr. Goebbels. "He has cut to zero the sums we may transmit out of the Fatherland for enlightenment abroad." In their sorrow Dr. Goebbels' somewhat naíve henchmen then revealed a fact?utterly staggering if it were a fact. They said blandly that Dr. Goebbels has been spending on propaganda abroad 200,000,000 marks or $80,000,000 a year, nearly $10,000 per hour, night & day. Since this would be enough to pay the interest for over two years on the Dawes and Young bonds now belligerently defaulted...
...property, he could not stir even a flutter of interest. But last week when six eminent gentlemen propounded these propositions they made front-page news. Finally it seemed as if the New Deal were to meet something more potent than the disorganized opposition of Herbert Hoover's well-beaten henchmen...
...break Mayor Walmsley's control of the New Orleans police, Boss Long had the State Legislature pass a law turning control of the police over to an independent board. To seize the tax reins of the city, Boss Long had Governor Allen appoint Long henchmen to the local Board of Tax Assessors, advised citizens to ignore the Walmsley board's assessments. Finally Boss Long prodded Governor Allen into a moral crusade against Mayor Walmsley, charging that his police had protected bawdy houses, dice games, other iniquities. As a final blow the Governor, early last week, declared "partial" martial...
...Ordnung muss sein! We must have order!" But who is to bring order out of Germany's political and economic chaos? Last week Adolf Hitler, seven days after he had sent some of his closest political henchmen to Death and two days after he had made an Economic Tsar, suddenly left Berlin by plane for the Bavarian Alps "to draw from Nature further inspiration." In Berlin his party henchmen declared blankly, "July will be a month of truce. Also no more Cabinet meetings are scheduled for July." An inspiration. widely published by the official Press, exhorted all unmarried...