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Last week squarejawed, short-haired Editrix Suzanne La Follette, cousin of the Wisconsin dynasty, concluded that it was "only fair" to let her 7,500 readers know the plight oi their year-old magazine. On the back cover she announced: "... It may shortly be numbered in the depressing category of lost causes. ... Its founder. Dr. Peter Fireman, expected to be able to finance it until its income was sufficient to cover its expense. The depression has impaired his resources, so that he finds himself unable to bear the full burden. . . . We earnestly hope [that readers] will be moved to contribute...
...line always held when it had to. For three periods both teams played hard, tense, defensive football. Then came a play on which Navy overshifted a little, and Army Halfback Ray Stecker cut over to the short side with pretty interference and was free. As he passed the line oi scrimmage he fooled the Navy right halfback and the safety man by swerving.sharply to his left as they came in from the wrong side; then he skipped 56 yards down the south sidelines to the only touchdown of the game. Army 6, Navy 0. Receipts Or the jobless (via Salvation...
...Herr Bruning?" "Here!" answered Chancellor Heinrich Briining, while Communists yelled, "Hunger Dictator! Not one more day of Bruning in this place!" Amid all sorts of bedlam the roll call continued, reached "Herr Dr. Lowen-stein?" "Oi, oi, oi!" jeered the Fascists, repeated this noise every time a Jewish name was called...
...Oi! Oi! Kikeriki!" "Comrades!" roared Communist Deputy Ernst Torgler as the Reichstag convened, "Do you know that working men are being clubbed to the ground outside this building? Donner und Blitz! What a way for this Reichstag to open!" In mass formation, with military tread, eyes front, the 107 new Fascist Deputies entered the Reichstag. When it last met they numbered twelve. Flushed with their great election victory (TIME, Sept. 22) they marched in coatless, each swelling out his Fascist "brown shirt," each flaunting the Fascist swastika on his left arm, each in khaki flare-pants, swank black leather boots...
Died. Allan Pinkerton, 54, horseracer, poloist, Long Island socialite, president oi Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; as the result of mustard-gassing in the War; at the Presbyterian Hospital, Manhattan. Pinkerton's first got fame before the Civil War when Allan Pinkerton, a bluff Scotch cooper, unearthed & pre-vented a plot to assassinate Lincoln on the way to his first inauguration. That Allan Pinkerton formed for Lincoln the first national secret service. Since then, three Pinkertons have headed the agency, made it largest in the world. Possible next president: Robert Allan Pinkerton (just out of Harvard...