Word: r
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building between the studios of Famous Players and R-K-0 in Hollywood a man was running a spool of film through a polishing machine. Something went wrong with the machine. A spark flew from a whirling gear and set the film on fire. A few seconds later every film in the room was on fire. Burning gas exploded and blew out the door, the flame rushed into other rooms. People staggered out of blazing doorways. Some were taken away in ambulances. One man died of his burns. All day the building-a laboratory of Consolidated Film Industries-burned like...
...young man in pale grey knickerbockers, his own face even paler, darted through the police cordon, pointed a nickel revolver at Prince Umberto, fired, then tripped over a trolley track as he fired again. Instantly Brussels' famed War-time hero, Burgomaster Max sprang in front of H. R. H. to shield him. The royal chauffeur beat down the assassin's arm. A policeman struck him swiftly with his sword...
Observers were mildly amazed that any group of antiFascists could have grown so bumble-headed as to plot the assassination of Crown Prince Umberto as a blow against Fascism. For years it has been rumored that H. R. H. is the member of the Italian Royal Family most estranged from Dictator Mussolini. Most antiFascists regard the Crown Prince's name as the best one around which to rally a revolution which should "deliver" Italy, yet preserve the Throne. Commonly in antiFascist circles the tale is told that H. R. H. once sent II Duce a challenge to duel...
...high grew Fascist tension that on Prince Umberto's return to Italy he felt obliged to respond to cheering with the Fascist salute. Previously H. R. H., like other young Royalist officers, has used the military salute. Standing on a balcony of the Royal Palace in Milan, while a Fascist mob made pandemonium below, the Heir of Italy for the first time raised his right arm stiff-elbowed and with palm extended, aped II Duce...
Tadjikistan now ranks with the seven other Independent Socialist Soviet Republics: 1) White Russia; 2) The Ukraine; 3) Armenia; 4) Uzbek; 5) Georgia; 6) Azerbaijan; 7) Turcoman. The joker is that all of these "independent republics" are federated with the Moscow Government of "Russia Proper," officially the R. S. F. S. R. or Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic. In theory the federal bond can be cast off by any Independent Republic at its sole discretion, but in practice such a step would bring Red Army divisions hot from Moscow...