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...later that morning. These troops were the escort of Nazi Police Chief Heinrich Himmler, who had arrived to take charge of the capital's constabulary. Herr Himmler found the regular Viennese police, already wearing swastika brassards, augmented by roving bands of Hitler Youth and Storm Troops. A great roundup and lockup of Socialists, Communists, labor unionists and Fatherland Fronters. the only legal party under Chancellor Schuschnigg, was instantly begun, and Seyss-Inquart sped to Linz to greet his master, Hitler. Ultimatum-bringer Josef Bürckel stayed in Vienna to reorganize the Austrian Nazi Party and prepare a plebiscite...
...cases were cited by dozens. This washing in the press of dirty Communist linen strongly suggested that, even though the Dictator may continue his own purge of Red bigwigs, public sentiment has made it advisable to put a stop to local imitators. Under Stalin's instructions, a vigorous roundup of small-fry purgers began. Jumping in to lend the Dictator their prestige, justices of the Soviet Supreme Court exhorted the lower courts and the Secret Political Police to join forces in a nationwide campaign to "Purge the Purgers...
Investigation by a woman who was surveying many colleges caused a roundup of 20 Undergraduates for cross-examining. "Although her figure plainly fell somewhere between the categories of the pseudo-scientific and the merely sexy," guise of research was maintained...
...ring. One of the four women caught by the Narcotics Department's dragnet was Mary de Bello whose husband, Thomas ("Tommy the Bull") Pennachio, is currently serving a 25-year sentence in Sing Sing for compulsory prostitution which he received after Special Rackets Prosecutor Thomas Dewey's roundup of New York vice gangs last year...
Your writers have done a fine roundup of football broadcasting under the "Kickoff" heading on p. 39 of TIME...