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...Reichstag building when small, bespectacled, aging Socialist Paul Lobe tried to call the Reichstag Committee for Protection of Civil Rights to order as its chairman he was shoved out of the chair by six-foot Nazi Lawyer Hans Frank who shouted: "You Marxist liar! You're unfit to preside. I declare myself chairman!" As Socialist, Communist and Centrist committeemen stalked out, one of them lit a cigar, had it wrenched from his teeth by a Nazi who cried: "Show respect to the Chairman...
After seven long years of watching French politics from Belgium, the Bourbon Pretender to the throne of France, six-foot, curly-whiskered Monseigneur Le Duc de Guise, decided last week that things were at last going badly enough for him to issue his first public appeal for restoration...
...Howard ("Always Something Doing''), famed oldtime burlesque house. At the hearing a Watch & Ward Society investigator described "vile body contortions" of a dancer. Said Mayor James Michael Curley, explaining that he had attended the show last October: "I never saw any muscle dancing there. The girls wore six-foot Turkish towels, much to the disappointment of the friends who accompanied...
...liberal churchman rather than a Catholic as it has usually done. Last week, after lengthy consideration, the vestry made known its choice, a broad churchman who is nonetheless Catholic enough to suit Bishop Manning who immediately confirmed the appointment. He is Rev. Dr. Frederic Sydney Fleming, 46, a slender, six-foot, bespectacled clergyman who began his career as a baker's assistant, became assistant to the president of big National Biscuit Co. before studying for the ministry at Western Theological Seminary and Nashotah House (Anglo-Catholic) in Wisconsin...
Dour little Bobby Cruickshank played so badly against Al Watrous of Detroit that he was 9 down on the 24th green. Watrous felt sorry for him and conceded a hard six-foot putt for a half. Bobby Cruickshank plays his best golf when he is angry; sympathy makes him furious. He won nine of the next eleven holes, clinched the match on the 41st green by pitching a niblick shot dead and dropping the putt for a 4 while Watrous, on the green in 2, took...