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...Signorina Blaha and five others to 30 years' imprisonment, the remaining two men to ten years. Bovone signed a plea for clemency, Sbardellotto scornfully waved the paper aside. Next morning at daybreak in the courtyard of Fort Bravetta they were chained to chairs. While 500 militiamen shouted, "A Noi!" (To us!), a firing squad smashed the plotters' backs with hard Fascist bullets. "For Benito Mussolini!" cried the commander. "Forward March...
...Bankers in Northern California agree that in the past three months the banking scare has cleared up. Deposits have been increasing. Although some of the banks are heavily committed in land they feel no worse off than some eastern banks holding bonds of doubtful value, industrial loans noi now collectible. Because rains were bountiful during the winter California's farmers were hopeful of good crops last week although the prices were discouraging...
...Baton Rouge, La., was brought John Schenayder, 82, backwoodsman, charged with making whiskey. Speaking only French, John Schenayder pleaded guilty through an interpreter, said that he had been making whiskey 50 years, had never heard of the Prohibition law, did noi know that the Civil War was over...
Anecdote: Shrugging her bent shoulders at one of these posters the old portress of an Italian palace said to a U. S. lady calling on her mistress: "Signora, noi siamo in brutte mani! (Madam, we are in ugly hands...
Four days later King Fuad, after consulting his British advisers, appointed one Ismail Sidky Pasha of the minute Ittihadist (pro-Palace) party to be Prime Minister. Everyone knew that this cabinet would fall the moment Sidky Pasha showed his nose in Parliament, but he did noi show...