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...Willingdon. Having pitched their golden thrones and held a durbar near the frontier of Afghanistan (TIME, May 2), they pitched thrones again last week and held another durbar in British Baluchistan, adjoining Persia. To do homage to Their Excellencies hundreds of Baluch nomads rushed out of mud-walled huts, sprang to horse and to camel and greeted the Vice-regal procession as Benito Mussolini or oldtime Amerindians would have done- with right arm outstretched. On the high-road to Kalat, capital of the native states of Baluchistan, Lord Willingdon noted with approval a sign To London, 5,877 Miles...
Despite the fact that Roman Catholic bishops have warned their German flocks against Catholic Hitler, terming him a firebrand contemptuous of authority, rumors soon sprang up in Berlin that enough Catholic Deputies of the Centre would vote with the Fascists and Nationalists to give Herren Hitler & Hugenberg an absolute majority with control of the Prussian Diet...
Quickly to the defense of Judge Wilkerson sprang 80-year-old President Frank Joseph Loesch of the Chicago Crime Commission and Col. Robert Isham Randolph of the anti-crime ''Secret Six." "Sworn testimony before the Senate Committee.'' said they, "showed that Judge Wilkerson issued this injunction on the following evidence: 'nineteen deaths, 1,500 assaults, 65 kidnappings, 300 cases of actual or attempted burning or dynamiting of property, 50 actual or attempted cases of derailment of trains, and other instances of sabotage too numerous to count...
After eleven rounds of it, beetle-browed little Christopher (."Bat") Battalino, who had insisted on twelve rounds because he thought he had the edge for stamina, gathered himself for a last effort to make the kill. He sprang across the ring. But wise old Billy Petrolic, whose nickname "Fargo Express" refers to a far day when he handled freight in North Dakota, measured him as he came. Petrolle was tired. He looked discouraged, too. and his knees had sagged during several of Battalino's crazy assaults. But his straight left and lethally fast right were still accurate. He measured...
...especially felt by the many who appreciated the unique position he held in the History Department at Harvard. The qualities by which he impressed the Freshmen in History 1 and the graduates in History 29 were not always identical, but they were always virile and arresting. In essence they sprang from his ability to interpret history in terms of human motives, a talent which many lecturers inadvertently bury in the leaves of ancient volumes...