Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started in as a youth when, on the steps of the local court, he killed the prefect of Jassy. His biggest job came in 1933 when he plotted, but did not take part in, the assassination of Premier Ion Duca. Three of those who pulled their triggers at Premier Duca were among the dead 14 last week. Tried several times, incarcerated fewer times, Leader Codreanu's defense was invariably superpatriotism. Until recently Rumanian law prescribed no death penalty. Well might a Fascist leader, at a time when Fascism was fast engulfing Eastern Europe, look upon a jail sentence...
Around King Carol himself there was once an Iron Guard clique. At one time, when there was a split in the group, Leader Codreanu was financed by the King's red-haired mistress, Mme Magda Lupescu, herself part Jewish, and on one occasion he escaped arrest by hiding in her house. When the "Little Fiihrer"was put on trial last summer many were the notables who risked royal displeasure by testifying to the Leader's undoubted patriotism...
...correct many of the evils existing under our unrestricted freedom of the press." Most French papers have accommodated the Government by suppressing the more unpleasant facts about the recent Nazi pogrom. A general toning down of all references to Adolf Hitler & Germany was last week believed to be part of the deal which Frenchman Daladier and German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop were about to strike in Paris...
...William Schmidt staked 24 gold, silver and copper claims in a remote part of California's Black Mountain. The ore veins looked rich, but miles of costly road would have been needed to get the ore around the mountain to a shipping point. Lacking capital, William Schmidt decided to tunnel through the mountain - alone. For 32 years he worked on his bore, using only blasting powder, hand drills and picks. Like the builders of the great Colorado River Aqueduct, he had to learn as he went along. At the start, he did not even know how to temper...
Hollywood's champion long-distance emotional gamut-runner, Luise Rainer has a real field day in Dramatic School. Her rich part requires her to twitch out the interpretation of a factory girl so anxious to perfect her histrionic technique that she constantly tells lies so that she will have to practice acting. The part also requires her to run through the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and declaim about the angel voices, as Joan of Arc. Poor little Paulette Goddard-co-starred presumably as part of the build-up for a forthcoming appearance as Scarlett O'Hara...