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Benito Mussolini stood last week four-square on a package of exploding firecrackers. Zing!-the British Navy blanketed the Suez Canal. Zip!-Italian submarines prepared to counter with "maneuvers" across Britain's communication lines in the Mediterranean. Pow!-Ethiopia's Emperor tried to hand over the better half of his realm to Standard Oil (see p. 23). And bang! bang! bang!-Italian guns fired live shells over Italian troops advancing in war games along the Austrian frontier, killing one trooper and wounding two others as they charged up a hill with the King and Mussolini looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Three-Year War | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation a gangster named Adam Richetti, wanted for taking part in the Kansas City Station massacre. That refusal marked the peak of jealous friction between local and Federal law enforcement agencies. Last winter Attorney General Homer Still Cummings tactfully called a peace pow-wow in Washington between the conflicting parties (TIME, Dec. 24). On the theory that the camaraderie of the classroom makes for mutual understanding and friendship, it was decided that three schools should be set up within the Department of Justice. One would undertake to familiarize new district attorneys, most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sleuth School | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

With red-robed and full-wigged judiciary celebrities gazing solemnly down from the walls of the Langdell Hall Court Room, the three justices in the Supreme Court of the Ames Competition handed down a decision giving the Scott Club a victory over the Pow Wow Club in the first of the quarter final arguments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMES QUARTER TRIALS GIVE SCOTT FIRST WIN | 2/15/1935 | See Source »

...biggest hardwood units in the hardwood capital of Memphis, made haste to resign from the code authority because he shared in the Fisher order. Recruiting hundreds of allies the 62 defiant companies then asked the code authority to abolish price-fixing. Last week after the Memphis pow-wow their petition was flatly denied. NRA Deputy Administrator E. A. Selfridge threatened to crack down, declaring that the Department of Justice was ready to start suits against each & every one of the 62 dissenters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Order by Fisher | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

THANK YOUR STORY AUG. 27 ISSUE CONCERNING TUSCARORA COURIERS BUNYON DERBY OLD FORT NIAGARA TO WHITE HOUSE STOP MY PRESS AGENT HEARTBROKEN HOWEVER THAT YOU . . . STATED THAT THREE GRAINS OF CORN INVITATION FOR GREAT WHITE FATHER WAS TO INDIAN PEACE POW-WOW STOP INVITATION WAS TO FOUR NATION CELEBRATION AT NIAGARA SEPT. 3 TO 6 IN WHICH BRITAIN, FRANCE, CANADA. U. S. ARE OFFICIALLY TO COMMEMORATE TWO CENTURIES OF WAR MORE THAN CENTURY OF PEACE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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