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...scarlet jersey, was the tallest, heaviest (216 lb.) rider in the race. Since starting in 1928 he had entered 37 six-day races, won 17. Alfred Letourner, teamed with Peden this autumn for the first time, is an excitable little Frenchman who wolfs six thick mutton chops at a swoop. His oldtime partner was now his opponent: Belgian Gerard Debaets, a clown who enlivens dull hours of the grind by sailing around the track with a parasol, a bustle or false whiskers...
...know," began the diminutive politician, once jailed, an admitted bribee,* who fired 179 State college professors in one swoop and refused to convene the Mississippi Legislature for fear it would impeach him, "you know, I'm a trouble shooter. If anything goes wrong with this Farm Relief Act, I'm supposed to know about it right away. I keep in touch with the way people are thinking. I'm going to read all kinds of newspapers and magazines...
Meanwhile in Linz, Austria, hundreds of witnesses were found who had seen a plane from Germany swoop down and drop leaflets containing Nazi threats against the Austrian Government of small, defiant Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss...
...when Spain was Cuba's tyrant. Some 2,000 insurrectos were hiding out in the hills at war with the regime of Dictator Gerardo Machado. They were mostly well-horsed, wellarmed, uniformed in blue denim. They fed at any sympathetic farmhouse. In guerrilla bands they were able to swoop on a village, overpower the Rural Guard, canter off to the hills with arms, food, money. More ammunition was smuggled to them from Mexico by small schooners slipping into the bays of the southern coast. From band to band went couriers, reporting arms shipments and the Government's moves...
...downtown building in Springfield had become infested with thousands of sparrows. One afternoon someone noticed the two hawks hovering over the spot, stopped to watch them swoop and kill. Next afternoon the hawks came to hunt again. More people stopped to watch. Before long three traffic policemen were needed to handle the hundreds who gathered daily to watch the aerial raids. Because the hawks always came at about 5:15 p. m. a merchant got the idea of starting a daily pool based on the fractional minute of the birds' appearance. Soon everyone from Mayor J. W. Kapp...