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...Clemens, Mich., a song-&-dance man was released from jail after the other prisoners complained his routine was getting monotonous. In Minneapolis a man who was tapped on the shoulder by a police officer during a roundup of drunks got into the patrol wagon, went to jail. In court he learned the cop had just wanted to ask him to move...
...next morning he had decided to take over himself, had started a police roundup of Arias' henchmen. At 10 the Cabinet met in the Balboa police station to form a new Government. As President it picked Ernesto Jaén Guardia, who was sworn in at 1 p.m. But after two members of the old Cabinet were arrested, Ernesto decided that he did not choose to rule, and by the end of the afternoon Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia was Panama's boss. All these changes were constitutional...
Wanted by both the Gestapo and Mussolini's agents, a Prato escaped a refugee roundup in France by fleeing to Morocco with a false passport. While being examined for the Gestapo list, the examining officer observed: "Why, you look just like this man a Prato." Said coolheaded a Prato: "Why, it is a remarkable resemblance...
Chile not only carried out a Nazi roundup but considered opening trade parleys with Russian envoys seeking minerals...
...Buenos Aires, peso-a-dozen rumors had it that the Argentine Government was about to wash its official hands of the Germans. There was a spectacular roundup of Nazi suspects, 30 of whom languished incommunicado in jail to face charges of siphoning off 95% of German Winter Relief contributions, piping the funds into propaganda channels...