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...walking along Quincy St. with one foot in the gutter and one on the curb stone. His hat was gray and somewhat battered. His coat was hanging loose and unbuttoned. He seemed to count his steps as he climbed and sank at each irregular stride...
Since all these rights have been commonplace in Capitalist countries for generations, observers found President Mussabekov's proposal for Soviet progress mildly paradoxical. Another great stride was taken some years ago when piece work, abolished in Russia after the Revolution, was restored by Stalin. Last week Soviet editors soon got wind of popular rumors that "free speech" is going to be granted along with the secret ballot. Promptly scotching these rumors, State newsorgans stated that Russians will not be granted free speech-the one thing no dictator dares to grant...
...much as pausing in his stride, Realmleader Adolf Hitler accepted his smashing Saar plebiscite victory (TIME, Jan. 21), passed on last week to Nazidom's next objective: to force the Great Powers to recognize and assent to the Fatherland's rearmament in violation of the Treaty of Versailles...
...starved, half-naked scarecrows with rags on their feet and bits of coonskin on their heads, have been issued their evening meal. It is so crawling vile the wretches spew it out. A pair of long-hunters are about ready to go home when General Washington and his staff stride by, looking for men with whole shoes to go on a foraging expedition...
When hard, fortyish Colonel Robert de la Roque marched with his quick, springy stride into the Premier's office anything was possible, including - as some jittery Paris papers pointed out - civil war. Gold was in panicky flight from France, citadel of the Gold Standard. Nearly $50,000,000 worth had been drawn by frightened capitalists from the Bank of France within 48 hours to be rushed abroad. Moreover Premier Doumergue had every reason to believe that he had the nation with him and against the politicians on his project of reforming the Constitution. For days delegations had been arriving...