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...United States of Brazil last month were given a new Constitution by their Dictator. Last week at a great open-air ceremony in Rio de Janeiro attended by Dictator-President Getulio Vargas, the Cabinet, highest army and navy officers and thousands of workers and schoolchildren, 20 Girl Scouts solemnly burned the flags of each of the 20 United States of Brazil upon an altar. Meanwhile the President had hoisted a large national flag. Simultaneously schoolchildren representing each of the 20 States hoisted 20 small national flags. Thus was symbolized the new Constitution's extinction of States' rights...
...Valley, Idaho. Another in Greenwich, Conn., was opened last month. But no New York store has ever gone so far away from home as California, apparently because New York merchants were afraid that Californians would resent being told what to wear by New Yorkers. Mr. Gimbel intends to handle his Californians gingerly. His personnel will be trained in New York but will be 100% native, when the store opens in April. On the flat roof of the building he helped design will be an open-air beauty shop, which Mr. Gimbel feels is the genuine California touch...
British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley climbed onto the top of a sound truck to address a Liverpool open-air mass meeting of 8,000 people. The crowd shouted, hissed. He gestured commandingly for silence, promptly received a volley of brickbats. Gashed on the left temple and back of the head, he fell, was carted off to a hospital with brain concussion. In the riot which he left, 20 people were injured, 15 were arrested...
...records for hauling passengers on Berlin trams, busses, subways and elevated lines were broken with a figure of 5,100,000 on the day Il Duce and Der Fuhrer keynoted in a heavy rain. This soddened everything but the Nordic cheers of their vast open-air audience nearly 1,000,000 of whom were Germans who had got up at 7 a.m. to march and drill all day in their Nazi organizations before they took their stand to hear the speeches at 7 p.m. As a furious cloudburst came down Mussolini made a quick remark to Hitler who gestured...
...Roosevelt, Secretaries Hull and Woodring (who, it was again rumored last week, would soon resign as Secretary of War to replace High Commissioner McNutt at Manila) had convinced him that it would be wiser to get along amiably with Commissioner McNutt took the form of a speech at an open-air banquet in Manila's Rizal Stadium. President Quezon, who had called on Commissioner McNutt the day after his return, declared: "As the Representative of the President of the United States, the High Commissioner naturally takes precedence over the President of the Philippines...