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After only a few days in office the Davila Government began to run short of funds, ordered carabineers to raid all the jewelry shops in Santiago, a work they performed with a will. Lest this seizing of valuables from helpless jewelers be called "confiscation" the carabineers gave each jeweler "compensation" in the form of a receipt which he could cash in paper pesos. Thus swank Weil's received a bit of paper on which a carabineer had scribbled "350,000 pesos." Marching bands of well-fed unemployed hailed "The First Socialist Government of Chile!" Plaintively Don Victor Navarrete, Minister...
...Penrods, raced along beside them, inwardly echoing the glorious "oompah, pah, pah, oompah, pah, dum," of the horns and drums, and rejoiced, for it was good to hear. Freshmen hung out of the windows of Wigglesworth and watched languidly, glad for an excuse to leave their books, but watchful lest they forget to appear bored; Freshmen do study, just before examinations. But the glamour of the scene did not escape even their indifferent eyes. Perhaps they were a little more aware of the sweat rolling off the double chin of the fat butcher, and the limp of the clerk whose...
First important set-back of the pilgrimage occurred when the veterans stepped off the Free Bridge in East St. Louis, Ill., and started to climb on an eastbound Baltimore & Ohio freight train. B. & O. officials, apprehensive lest the men wreck the train or kill themselves, ordered the train not to leave the yards. Then the marchers tried strategy. They deployed to Caseyville, eight miles away, waited until a string of 30 cars started to climb a steep grade there. Soaped rails and a cut air hose stalled the train, of which the marchers took informal possession. Ice melted from valuable...
...Albert Lebrun, the engineer recently elected President of France (TIME, May 16), sat owl-solemn through a Cabinet session last week, stroked his wide black mustache from time to time as Premier Tardieu formulated plans "to keep a much closer watch on all foreigners in France or entering France." Lest U. S., British or German tourists be scared away it was elaborately hinted that Russians, Italians and Spaniards will be the chief objects of scrutiny...
...Press or Police could return the child alive to its parents, the lid of caution abruptly blew off the case. For the first time pictures of the nursery were published. And the text of the original ransom note, which newspapers had withheld since the case entered its second day lest negotiations for the child's return be jeopardized, was unofficially made public...