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Suddenly an explosion dulled the storm's roar. A halo of flame swelled through the raindrenched night. For an instant the watching peasants could discern the shine of the R-101'S length, could see her nose plunged into the wooded side of a low hill. There was a second, a third explosion, a titanic blaze...
...Monday, Wall Street was flooded with rumors that a house would fail. Tuesday morning stories of pending insolvencies were thicker, more persistent. At 1:30 President Richard Whitney mounted the rostrum of the Exchange. Trading was supplanted by a tense silence. Then an excited roar greeted the announcement that J. A. Sisto & Co. Inc. were unable to meet their engagements. Selling pressure increased. By the close of the market 34% of the common stocks listed were at least 20% below their old 1929 bottoms, while 59% touched or dipped under that level...
When this drew from the gallery a roar of "Germany Awake!" (Fascist slogan), Judge Baumgarten glared at the assemblage, rumbled, "Silence, this is not a theatre!" but soon Herr Hitler in smashing demagog style was carrying all before...
...Morrow had no public record on Prohibition. In his first address he declared for repeal of the 18th Amendment and return of the question to the States. Unlike numerous Wet demagogs in both parties who feast publicly on the bones of Dry mistakes, he did not rant and roar against Prohibition. He discussed it with cool-headed dispassion and dignity. He tried to un- scramble morals from government, warned of the Federal Government as "an alien and even hostile power," counseled a new "reasonableness" between Wets and Drys...
...noon it struck. A howling grey wall of wind and water smashed full against the city. Trees bent over, slowly, grotesquely, then snapped from their roots, were flung aside like chaff. Above the roar of the wind came the rumble of falling masonry, and screams...