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...turn the city's strikes into riots required only a little Communist know-how. The Reds moved in with a front called The Committee Against the High Cost of Living, and called on the workers to assemble at Praça da Sé, before the city's unfinished cathedral, for a "March of the Empty Pots." Policemen with loudspeakers warned the strikers to disperse. Instead the crowd grew. Firemen turned their hoses on the strikers, who reacted with laughter and jeers until the plainclothesmen waded in, swinging rubber truncheons. Saber-wielding cops on horses charged into...
...have any effect on his sexual activity, a pellet would need to be consumed daily, or possibly even twice daily, for at least five or six days. We can't quite imagine anyone eating that number of chicken necks or heads, even ignoring the fact that in pra. tically every instance the pellet will have been completely absorbed by the chicken before it is marketed...
...Minister Juan N. Tonazzi, grim-faced by nature and not by virtue of the fact that Argentina and Brazil are somewhat jealous of each other's influence in Paraguay. With a harmonious rattle, U.S. -made light tanks and German-made anti-aircraft guns rolled down the Praça da Republica. Even U.S.-ousted Nazi Consul General Fritz Wiedemann, who turned up in Rio for the birthday party, purred that he was on a "special mission...
...name of His Majesty is Prajadhipok, easily pronounced with accent on the second syllable pra-chatī-ti-pok. Like nearly all Siamese the King is a Buddhist, officially Defender of the Faith...
...reception is certain to be a mob scene, the envy of Producers D. W. Griffith or Cecil B. De Mille. Imagine the quandary of even a well-informed newspaper correspondent, cornered perhaps by Pra Sundra Vachana, First Secretary of the Siamese legation, or Abu-el-Enein Salem Effendi, second attaché of the Egyptian legation, with the inquiry: "Monsieur, will you be so kind as to point out to me the gentlemen who have recently distinguished themselves in the operations of the Congress...