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...Frenchmen. Jean Boujennec and Louis Chabrat, were arraigned last week before a Rightist court martial at Pamplona. The Court took note of their confession that they had been paid $3.750, inspected tubes found on them said to contain typhoid and sleeping-sickness germs and viruses. Although Death was the prompt sentence of the court martial. President Franco intervened, delayed the Frenchmen's execution "pending an international inquiry." With Spain's civil war in its 13th month, neither side had yet used poison...
...Fort entrance, streaked through the gates before a dazed sentry could collect his wits, covered the dumbfounded garrison of crack regulars gathered about their morning rum ration. The whole operation required less than two minutes. Eight days later Smith was arrested and put on trial for murder. Following his prompt acquittal, he was elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly...
...Plenty Smart?" The C.I.O. was prompt in purging Gus Hall & friends from its membership, and none too soon. Even Labor-loving Governor Murphy of Michigan, while viewing the rising tide of vigilantism with equal alarm, last week flayed the "communistic cliques" in C.I.O. for encouraging "disorder, violence and bloodshed...
...reading your story of the medical care for the victims of the Hindenburg fire [TlME, May 17], I was much impressed by the prompt response and competence shown by the medical people around Lakehurst. However, I came near shuddering as I am sure did many doctors and others whose primary interest is Medicine, to note how the burned ones were daubed with oils and grease* "carron, linseed, castor, lard...
Between 1865, the year after he married Laura Spelman, a Cleveland schoolteacher, and 1872, he evolved and put into prompt practice the basic principle on which Standard Oil achieved its power- buy out competitors at pistol point or destroy them if they refuse to sell. Monopoly of oil was his objective almost from the start. The pistol he used was the secret rebate, the notorious device by which a shipper got a refund on his railroad freight, enabling him to undersell competitors. Rockefeller carried this one step further by bludgeoning the railroads into giving him not only a rebate...