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...nation is not so ready to accept the dictatorship of Vintila Bratiano, a single-track pedantic conservative, as it was to obey his late brother Jon Bratiano, that born dictator and multitalented statesman (TIME, Dec. 5). Moreover the 60,000 waiting, shuffling peasants must have been a strong reminder that if the House of Bratiano had ever permitted a fair election to be held in Rumania during the past decade, it would certainly have been swept out of power by the peasant party. Faced by such facts would Vintila Bratiano bend now or break later? The peasants munched their rations...
...population divided three times against itself. The blacks were the first to revolt. A man named Boukmann gathered his people in a forest, told them that the King of France had proclaimed three holidays every week for slaves, that an army was coming from France to make their masters obey. There was thunder in the sky above the woods, ". . . and, as if born of the darkness and storm, a giant Negress appeared in the midst of the crowded open space. A long knife gleamed wet in her upraised right hand, her naked body was streaked with rain." In August...
Today the French courts obey their new instructions and have tightened up their recent laxity in granting divorces to foreigners. The first notable test case under the new regime came up, last week, when onetime (1920-21) U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby sought to obtain a divorce at Versailles. Rich, potent and himself a lawyer, Mr. Colby had retained to present his case that most distinguished of avocats onetime (1920-24) President of France Alexandre Millerand...
...Pensendorfer factory at West Berlin, N. J., the workmen need have no names. They have only three rules to obey: keep straight, shun booze, work hard. Ex-convicts skilled at woodworking are welcome at West Berlin...
...from it changed its character. It was on top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., that the Klan's 34 adventurous founders met on Thanksgiving Day, 1915, to swear their tremendous oath, but last week it was in stuffy meeting halls and hackneyed offices that Klansmen met to obey the following "edict" of Emperor and Imperial Wizard Hiram W. Evans...