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...Renard, deputy secretary-general of the Socialist-led General Workers Federation, rose to tell 30,000 workers at a union rally that the strikes must go on at any cost. A thousand rowdies broke from the crowd and rampaged through the streets, smashing the glass facade of the railway station, overturning police cars. For the first time, troops opened fire to quell the trouble; by the time they had driven the mob to the banks of the Meuse River, two strikers had been wounded by their bullets...
...Devil Himself. The son of a railway stationmaster, Schiele lived most of his childhood in the drowsy Danubian town of Tulln, 14 miles northwest of Vienna. He was an emotional, lonely boy who spent so much time turning out drawings that he did scarcely any schoolwork. When he was 15, his parents finally allowed him to attend classes at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Even there he did not last for long. Cried one professor after a few months of Student Schiele's tantrums and rebellion: "The devil himself must have defecated you into my classroom...
...group of young hotheads rushed to the main railway station, breaking win dows inside and smashing the front of the station post office. When mounted gendarmes galloped up, the rioters hurled firecrackers at the feet of the police horses...
...heavy fall rains, the soggy earth could take no more.As gale after gale swept over nearly every county in England and Wales, the floods seeped out onto 150 main roads, bringing traffic to a standstill. Near Dover, a chunk of the famed white cliffs fell onto the railway lines. Swans swam placidly in the streets of (of all places) Bath. Last week it was still raining. Noted London's Evening Standard sourly: "The tanned appearance of many Londoners is not sunburn-it is rust...
DIVIDEND BAIT was offered Baltimore & Ohio stockholders by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway to push the tenders it holds for 55% of B. & O. stock to 80%. After winning battle for control against New York Central, C. & O. extended stock-trading offer for 30 days and added a lure: C. & O. guaranteed B. & O. takers the $4 per share annual C. & O. dividend as of Jan. 1, if deal goes through. B. & O. pays only...