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Handsome Sons Carlos and Luis, home on vacation from Georgetown University, romped off with their lively sister Maria and a party of friends toward Santo Domingo Square. Weaving among spruce citizens and loutish peasants, whirling to the strains of native music, they had just begun to enjoy themselves when suddenly at 10 p. m. explosion after explosion tore the air, broke windows and set women screaming as flames leaped up into the night. "Mother of God it's the President's Palace!" cried husky voices. "A Revolution! They've blown up the President!" Pale but courageous...
...Spruce and confident, Chancellor Hitler's "Maritime Adviser,'' Herr Emil Helfferich, cried: "I propose that this stockholders' meeting voice its ardent loyalty to our leader, Adolf Hitler, and to the spirit of National Socialism." This was done and Nazi Helfferich, whose chief reputation is that of a successful trader and plantationist in the East Indies, marched out of the meeting as the duly elected board chairman of Hamburg-American...
...afraid to go home became so loud that Pennsylvania's Senator Reed felt obliged to deny them in open Senate. Last week Mr. Mellon debarked from the Leviathan in Manhattan on his 78th birthday, quietly parried newshawks' questions. He said he had heard his successor, spruce young Judge Robert Worth Bingham of Kentucky, "favorably commented on" in London. Asked whether "beer will help much." he said, "What do you mean, help the thirsty?" Asked if he would rest now, he said: "Nobody rests. But I will be free, and I think I have reached an age when...
...world of reforestation and economic possibilities are suggested by this new paper. In the economic background is the fact that two-thirds of American newsprint now is imported. Spruce pulpwood costs $9 to $10 a ton. Pine in the South sells for $3.50. . . . Most of the sulphur used in papermaking is hauled from Louisiana to Canada, right through the South. Much of the clay for filler for book paper in America is produced by the three Georgia counties, Washington, Bibb and Wilkinson. It is now shipped Ions distances. In Georgia it almost literally clings to the roots of pine that...
...Indeed!" When sober, cold-water-shaven Adolf Hitler turned up for the third historic time at the President's Palace last week, he found Old Paul all smiles and spruce Colonel von Papen ready to pop the question: "Will you, Herr Reichspräsident, entrust Herr Hitler with a mandate to form a Cabinet...