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...bogie of the Soviet Union is exiled Leon Trotsky. No. 2 is "espionage." carried out by "agents of Germany and Japan" who. according to Russia's official press, "swarm the country." In yet another effort to stamp out these twin enemies, the Kremlin last week was full of the bustle of spring cleaning...
...Victoria Embankment, 40,000 school children in berets of maroon, green and blue swarm into their places. Peter Suffren, 6, with a row of tin medals on his chest and clutching a bottle of milk, a bag of potato chips, says: "I wish I had a princess for a girl...
Instead of silencing conjecture, the big Ball gift generated a swarm of new stories. Hearst's New York American "learned exclusively" that California Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini's Transamerica Corp., through Bancamerica-Blair Corp., had been negotiating for Midamerica's 2,064,000 shares of Alleghany Corp. common stock which it holds in the complex Van Sweringen corporate setup. But old Mr. Giannini denied this...
...companions were not employes of the store, but union organizers who had seized it in a raid, cowing employes into a strike. Here at last were sit-downers against whom Governor Murphy could proceed with undivided sympathies. He denounced their action as a "form of banditry," and a swarm of 300 policemen raided and routed them. With public opinion swinging behind them at the revelation of these "professional sit-down strikers," the emboldened police moved on seven shoe stores and a food plant, smashed sit-downs in all of them...
...Buck for the first time to invent a spectacular locust plague. In what is the cinema's first investigation of what may prove a fertile field for drama-the War against the Insect-Wang and his men. ankle deep in bugs, battle with fire, clubs and feet the swarm which drones down the valley, blackening the sky. Some of these incredible scenes were shot in China; others, showing close-ups of locusts feeding, were shot during a grasshopper plague in Utah with a microscopic lens attached to a camera. Finally the wind comes, blowing the locusts back...