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...named "Kansas," he opened one eye to a slit, then grinned at the gawping newshawks. In a few moments wires throughout the U. S. carried the news of how the Democratic and Republican nominees for the Presidency would meet in the midst of the campaign, discuss the non-political subject of Drought. To find an historical precedent, oldsters had to go back to 1896 when William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, both out stumping, met by chance in a small Nebraska town...
...lusty, quarreling Nazi cliques are a group of bachelor bodyguards. Their chief is Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm Bruckner, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, who sleeps outside Hitler's door. When Hitler drove out in his huge Mercedes-Benz, the man at the wheel was usually Julius Schreck, muscular, slit-eyed sub-commander of the Schutzstaffel, who wore an imitation Hitler mustache. Substitute chauffeur was Erich Kempka, 25, Schutzstaffel captain. Since even Prussian Premier Goring and Minister of Propaganda Goebbels cannot see the Realmleader without an appointment, Hitler's bodyguards are the men in Germany closest...
...heavy, slit-eyed man with an unshaven, greenish face got out of a plane one afternoon last week at the San Antonio, Tex. airport. Behind him trailed five swarthy followers only slightly less formidable-looking. The first man was Mexico's onetime President and longtime Boss Plutarco Elías Calles, who had just been forcibly exiled from Mexico by President Lázaro Cárdenas. Sick, sleepless and broken, the 58-year-old exile turned on newshawks an impressively bitter face...
...some rabbit ova in brine. Other rabbit ova he heated to 113° F., about 10° above normal. When he placed salted or heated ova in the fallopian tubes of rabbits, the rabbits became pregnant. Too impatient to wait 33 days for normal parturition, he killed the does, slit them open, found well-developed rabbit embryos inside, proclaimed the first parthogenesis of a mammal...
...spread their leader's views, authorized their executive board to withhold U. M. W.'s $48,000 annual tax to the A. F. of L. Some delegates were also of a mind to chuck A. F. of L.'s President William Green, who got his cheek slit in a coal mine, out of the small office he holds in the U. M. W. It therefore took considerable courage for Miner Green to march into the convention and plead that "experience has taught us that both plans [of union organization] can be included" in the Federation. But William...