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...days before all Italy was aroused last week by the screech of Fascist sirens and the clang of Catholic church bells rung by special permission of the Pope, quiet Professor Felice Guarneri had matters of vital moment to discuss in his snug Roman office at the Ministry of Finance. One day last June the Professor was abruptly summoned by the Dictator, given absolute control over Italy's exports & imports. Since then no Italian has been able to get foreign exchange with which to buy anything abroad without Guarneri's O. K. No other man alive knows so much...
...which he is ideally suited because of his size, his strength, his enormous Marseille voice, generally admitted to be the loudest in Paris. President Bouisson broke the handle of so many brass dinner bells, bonging for order, that the present bell is firmly screwed to the desk, rung by a lever at the top. Like a head waiter, President Bouisson has spent his working hours in full dress. When the bonging of his bell or the bellow of his voice failed to quiet a parliamentary riot, he had one last way to restore order. He clapped...
Suddenly Prosecutor Wilentz electrified the courtroom with news that was to many indeed new: "Hauptmann . . . has got this ladder right around his neck. . . . One rung of that ladder, one side of that ladder comes right from his attic, put on there with his tools, and we will prove it to you! . . . We demand the penalty of murder in the first degree...
...Forest (by Robert Sherwood; Gilbert Miller, Leslie Howard, Arthur Hopkins, producers). When, in the first 30 minutes of a show, four men appear carrying sub-machineguns, a spectator may be pretty sure that something fairly exciting is going to happen. When, 30 minutes before the curtain is to be rung down, the hero makes an arrangement with one of the gunmen to kill him before they leave, a spectator may be forgiven for twisting his program completely out of shape...
...Daring Young Man in Washington, who has been floating from right to left and voiceovers, with the greatest of ease, now seems to be clinging contentedly to the conservative rung. Indications all point to Roosevelt's occupancy of the headship of the conservative party, at no very distant date. We might even ask you to put this prediction of ours down in your own black and white for later verification. It's the old story of Elisha and Elljah, that is being re-enacted down in the nation's capital. Having sowed a few radical oats, Roosevelt will now accept...