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With pained aplomb the leading yarn makers of the Empire held a quiet mass meeting last week in Manchester. They had given His Majesty's Government sleepless nights by closing their mills, throwing 50,000 of the King's subjects out of work (TIME, Aug. 13). This was their decorous way of hinting that the British Embassy in Berlin had better get busy. They had shipped £1,500,000 worth of yarn to Germany in all good faith. They had not been paid, as bland German importers pointed out that the Reichsbank had blocked all such transfers to conserve...
...else these "Balance Wheels" would be retained to steady his careening Government. In Berlin for some days von Papen had been considered politically dead. The strain of living under house arrest, never knowing when his guards might turn executioners, had made the Vice Chancellor's eyes red from sleepless worry-or nervous weeping. Even a son of onetime All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm, gape-jawed, goggle-eyed Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi"), had been called on the carpet as a plot suspect by bull-necked Nazi General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. After grilling perspiring "Auwi," whom he scared half...
Last fall Shoemaker, kept sleepless in a Minneapolis hotel by trolley repair men, went into battle at 2 a. m. in trousers, undershirt, smashed an acetylene welding machine, threw red lanterns in all directions, demanded a ride to police headquarters four blocks distant, was released when he identified himself. The trolley company swallowed its loss...
...author of Wednesday's editorial on "Military and Naval Sciences" must have spent a sleepless Tuesday night. He does not seem to mind the R.O.T.C. units if there are enough bloodthirsty cut-throats in the student body to fill the quota of the courses, but he insists that the University should not be tricked by the Government into allowing the required four courses to count for the degree. Such militarism dropped in the yard is subversive to the lefty, and liberal standards of the University. Such is his lament...
...every Turkish city and major town the dawn came up one day last week with the earth-shaking thunder of a 100-gun artillery salute. Three days and nights of sleepless rejoicing, songs, dancing in the streets and every sort of Turkish whoopee began by express order of the Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, blond "Victorious Mustafa the Excellent...