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While various of his war lords were consorting in intrigue against him last week (see above) Prudent President Chiang Kai-shek despatched an order to U. S. agents in Shanghai for a second armored motor car. Bigger, more potent than the armored Packard sedan he has used for a year and a half (TIME, Oct. 29, 1928) President Chiang's new vehicle will be the most expensive car ($47,000) ever to enter China, has been planned especially...
...lowest priced Studebaker car is the Dictator Six Club Sedan, which lists at $1,085 at the factory. The average price of the Studebaker car is in excess...
Wrecker of Cabinets. The bitterest years fast followed the happiest. Returning to Paris in the last days of fat Napoleon Ill's tottering empire, the Young Tiger was just in time to gnash impotent jaws as Bismarck's Prussians conquered with "blood and iron" at Sedan, then tramped on to Paris. The pomp, the swagger, the burning shame lit a blaze of hate in Clemenceau which nothing ever quenched. Bismarck, Wilhelm II, Stresemann?they were all anathema. "Stresemann was Bismarck's best pupil," growled the Tiger recently. "He has gotten everything for his country, while on our side everything...
...world last week. Great storms lashed the Great Lakes (see p. 15), the stock market crashed historically (see p. 45), assassin's guns were pointed in Belgium and Chile (see pp. 27, 32). President Hoover, rumbling through Indiana, felt his special train grind to a stop. A sedan had been placed on the tracks at a grade crossing. Secret Service operatives investigated on the spot. Two Negroes were arrested. They succeeded in convincing their captors that, ignorant of the President's proximity, they had plotted merely to collect damages from the railroad...
...owner, one Hans Nickels, a onetime Kapitan of Munich police, was pursued to Hamburg, arrested. In the sedan was a cigar box. In the cigar box was a pound and a half of smokeless powder and a time fuse. At the same time Hamburg police raided the apartment of a Hamburg bank clerk, found another bomb containing the same type of powder. The arrest of Bombardier Nickels and the bank clerk led to the discovery of a bomb factory in Berlin operated by a certain Erich Timm. Much more important was the discovery that these men and many others were...