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...greenbacks]." The inflationists took him at his word. Elmer Thomas, Huey Long and friends who had voted for the Vinson Bill a few minutes before promptly plopped against it. The Patman Bill won, 52-10-35, because an unpremeditated combination swung to its support. To the inflationists' assistance sprang ten Administration stalwarts headed by Senators Robinson and Harrison-whose object was to pass a Bonus Bill against which a veto could be made to stick...
...booted footmen sprang up behind, the coachman cracked his whip, and out through Grosvenor Gate the coach rolled, to smack into collision with a lumbering scarlet omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal...
Next day slumbering Stresa on the blossom-dotted rim of Lago Maggiore sprang to life. Excited Fascist workmen ripped up the main street from end to end. They had all but demolished the stuffy little station when an architect front Rome arrived, his mind full of modernism and marble. Snappily accoutred Fascist militiamen and plainclothes agents in all conceivable disguises arrived to put Stresa and its basking tourists under careful scrutiny. "Now that Hitler has defied the world, and Nazi agents are kidnapping and even murdering small fry abroad," said a Fascist corporal of militia grimly, "who knows what outrage...
...dull morning last fortnight brokers on the New York Cotton Exchange were getting ready to take off their linen office coats and go out to lunch. Suddenly for no apparent reason one trader sprang forward to the ring, announced he would sell cotton for 11.80? per lb. - 20 points below the price at which that staple has been virtually pegged by the Government for seven months. A violent wave of selling broke over the market, uncovering nests of stop orders. The price fell 10 to 20 points on each transaction. May contracts sank to 10.25?. Brokers snouted themselves hoarse...
Such rank weeds as the late Clyde Barrow and his cigar-smoking mistress Bonnie Parker (TIME, June 4) sprang from roots deeply embedded in the darkest social soil. Loudly has the Department of Justice proclaimed its purpose not only to cut down the weeds but also to dig up their roots. Therefore last week a Federal jury in Dallas, Tex. convicted 15 grubby persons who had nourished and protected Bandits Barrow & Parker. Five others had already pleaded guilty. Given sentences ranging from one hour to two years were Bonnie Parker's mother and sister; Barrow's mother...