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...that the Government apparently could not make up its mind to state just why a fellow-Bolshevik had slain Stalin's friend. Rumors that the act sprang from a "private grudge" were circulated by the Kremlin, but public curiosity for the real facts was so strong that every news kiosk was surrounded as soon as fresh papers arrived. Eager Russians snatched, read and flung down tons of papers in disgust when they proved to contain only propaganda, such as this telegram from beyond the Arctic Circle: "WE SHOCK BRIGADE WORKERS ON THE NEVA HYDROELECTRIC STATION PLEDGE OURSELVES TO COMPLETE...
...Berlin nearly every kiosk blossomed with a poster of Der Marschall und der Gefreite. Onetime Gefreite (lance-corporal) Adolf Hitler was shown in Nazi uniform, Feldmarschall von Hindenburg in the sack suit of a President. Together they appealed to all Germany in giant capitals to KAMPFEN MIT UNS FUR FRIEDEN UND GLEICHBERECHTIGUNG! ("Battle with us for peace and equality!"). The great plebiscite decreed by Chancellor Hitler to vindicate his withdrawal of Germany from the Disarmament Conference and resignation from the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 23 et seq.) was on. Adolf Hitler, born an Austrian, was about to make good...
...Manhattan, a taxi descending Brooklyn Bridge ramp sent a group of pedestrians helter-skelter, bounced off a trolley car, mounted three curbs, dragged a steel traffic cable & stanchions 10 ft., crushed through a newsstand, cracked a subway kiosk, stopped at the head of the subway stairs. Extricating himself uninjured from the wreckage, Chauffeur Jacob Selditch said : "I guess maybe them brakes ought to be tightened...
...situation is really more serious than the paragraph above would indicate. Dangerous accidents are happily rare, but they do happen, and can be partly attributed to the confusion caused by a medley of traffic lanes. Around the subway kiosk the constant presence of parked cabs, and the buses and street cars which stop there, make it an especially dangerous point. The autoist himself is in an unenviable position. Having voluntarily relinquished the use of an auto because of its inevitable annoyances at Harvard, I can speak for both motorist and pedestrian on this point...
...London speakeasies at $2 per bottle. Some Coast Guardsmen became drunk and rowdy. The base commander put a guard around his station, leveled destroyer searchlights upon it. Each guardsman "going ashore" was thoroughly searched at the gate to prevent liquor smuggling out of the base. The gate kiosk was stacked with miscellaneous bottles. General courts martial were ordered with 24 guardsmen involved in charges of intoxication, or pilfering liquor...