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When the District's voteless citizen-advisers beheld the House's handiwork, they sped to the Senate hot with anger. Virginia's Carter Glass promptly announced himself as a champion for scores of thousands of Federal workers not so fortunate as to work for Congress. What the House had done for itself, the Senate could undo. Pending redress, Columnist Raymond Clapper (Scripps-Howard) spoke for other nonimmune D. C. residents in words of measured scorn...
...Russian Revolution, Consul Reinhardt day by day watched Chinese guards lead away some of his companions to be executed, waited for his own turn to come. It never did. Instead "a very beautiful young lady, wrapped in furs" guided Herr Reinhardt and cell mates to two waiting limousines, sped them to a hideout, kept them supplied with food. Later the Consul learned that his rescuer was a Jewish girl friend of late potent Bolshevik Grigory Zinoviev (né Radomyslsky, purged August...
...village of Les Ribierés, France, Dragoon René Drouet borrowed an automobile, sped through the streets screaming: "Hitler is marching on Paris!", started a panic. Arrested, facing military discipline, Dragoon Drouet faltered: "I thought it would be a good joke...
They saw two U. S. youngsters beat the whizzing foreign skiers at their own game. Dartmouth's great Dick Durrance sped down the two-and-a-half-mile Mt. Hood downhill course, ''Hara-kiri Hill," in 3:55.3; raced twice around the wicked slalom turns in the Ski Bowl on neighboring Tom, Dick and Harry Mountain in 2:44.6 for the best combined score of all, open or amateur. By far the best of the women in the combined score was graceful, 26-year-old Betty Woolsey of Connecticut, captain of the women's team...
...rampage, had washed clear away the centre section of a concrete highway bridge. While he stumbled back through the underbrush to the highway, other cars zoomed smoothly up to the bridge-and vanished. Frantically he tried to flag three others. Their drivers ignored the dripping, scarecrow figure and sped on into the void. Each time there followed a single booming splash, sometimes a few hoarse shouts and screams...