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...guide books, Figueras is remembered as the town where the marriage of King Philip V to Marie Louise of Savoy was ratified in 1701. In the guide books of the future, Figueras will be more vividly remembered as the meeting place of one of the strangest sessions of the Cortes, the Spanish Parliament. The Spanish Constitution requires a session of the Cortes at least every six months. Determined to be scrupulously constitutional, the Premier called a Cortes meeting despite the gravity of the military situation. In an underground, bombproof cavern of the 18th-Century Castle of San Fernando...
Many strange things bobbed up last week when investigators probed in the affairs of McKesson & Robbins, the great drug firm which had been defrauded by an expert crook. Among the strangest were old copies of Drug Topics found in the company's files which declared that McKesson & Robbins had "sponsored" a nationwide lecture tour in 1936 and 1937 "to consolidate the sentiment of retailers, manufacturers and businessmen generally behind the Robinson-Patman Law." The lecturer was Congressman Wright Patman of Texarkana...
...Strangest feature of the Changkufeng affair to Russian and outside observers was that during and after the border battles Russian press comment omitted all mention of the Soviet's famed "Red Napoleon," Marshal Vasily Bluecher, Commander in Chief of the Far Eastern Army. One yellow newsman, the Japanese Domei agency's Ihacha Hagueno, dared to flash the flat statement that Marshal Bluecher had been arrested. In retaliation, Soviet secret police pounced on Hagueno's Russian woman translator and clamped her into jail. Promptly Japanese newsorgans announced that Marshal Bluecher had been not only arrested but had committed...
...mouth organs and to 10? saxophones, to no music at all, voicing the appalling floy floys, shim shams and swizzle-swipes which are the lingo of swing. Four hundred extra policemen marveled that no one was hurt. It was, in the words of Chicago Daily Newsman Gene Morgan, "the strangest manifestation of youthful exuberance perhaps ever witnessed since the Middle Ages' ill-fated Children's Crusade...
...days with his gruesome cargo. After changing the details of this narrative four times, Paul Dwyer was convicted of murder, sent for life to Maine's State Prison at Thomaston. Last week Convict Dwyer was back in court with a sixth version of the murders, by far the strangest, most horrible...