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...annual tribute to their French prince. According to laws dating back to 1278, it should have consisted of two of every kind of livestock raised in Andorra. President Lebrun, however, has no place to keep sheep and goats in the Elysée Palace at Paris, so his representative, Prefect Raoul Didkowski of the Lower Pyrenees, instead accepted...
...Daladier was supported vigorously by Jean Chiappe, former Prefect of Police whose name was considerably clouded by the Alexandre Stavisky scandals of 1934. ''Put Chiappe in prison!" roared the Left. "A bas Moscou!" ("Down with Moscow!") came back to Right...
...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...
...lieu of the reformatory, is a naval training institution which seems to be a model of its kind, with good-hearted Herbert Mundin to teach the boys sailors' knots and coach the lifeboat crew; Charles Coburn to improve their characters, and young Mickey Rooney to act as head prefect. To Geoffrey, the routine lacks excitement. It is not until he has insulted the headmaster's wife, tried to run away, been put in coventry, acted as coxswain of the crew and finally been offered a job on the Queen Mary that his appreciation of Russell-Cotes...
...frank advocate of terrorism, tall, thin, shaggy-haired Codreanu has been implicated in many of Rumania's political assassinations in the last 15 years. His grandfather an immigrant Pole, his mother rumored to have been a German, Codreanu first acquired political importance by shooting dead Prefect Manciu of Jassy, Rumania's university town, who had arrested students for anti-Semitic outrages. Results for him: a trial, acquittal, increased popularity, formation of the secret terrorist society "The League of the Archangel Michael," forerunner of the Iron Guard and the All-for-the-Fatherland Party...