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Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo arosein the Senate one day last week to display a bulky petition. It bore,said he, the names of 2,500,000 U. S. Negroes who would prefer to live in Africa. For three-and-a-half hours and 26 pages in the Congressional Record, he expanded on a way to make this possible: let the Government establish a Greater Liberia for "repatriated" blacks...
...could see fighting going on outside," reported Daughter Alzira. "The invaders seemed armed with machine guns and grenades. Projectiles cut through the tall palms of the garden and chipped the palace walls." For three-and-a-half anxious hours President Vargas and his defenders held out. Finally War Minister Enrico Caspar Dutra, a bullet through his ear, arrived, leading a detachment .of the regular army and attacked the Integralistas from the rear. Rio Grande do Sul Interventor Colonel Oswaldo Cordeiro de Faria, who had been busy battling attackers at his home, appeared still clad in his pajamas at the head...
...supervisor and eight imaginary foremen. Then he made out payroll vouchers and sent them to the War Department, which pays all National Park Service employes who do conservation work. Unfortunately, he could not make up imaginary CCC boys, for they are not paid through the Park Service. For three-and-a-half years Clerk Stitely led a more abundant life, collected 1,116 checks totaling $84,000. Once, in a burst of generosity, he gave two of his imaginary foremen raises. Now & then he put one of them on the sick list...
...breezeless and unpolitical atmosphere of last July, MARCH OF TIME turned its cameras on the career of Fusion Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New York City. Finding the bustling little Mayor a cheerfully photogenic subject, M. 0. T. dramatized the high spots of his energetic three-and-a-half years in office, made particular point of his political independence. The cameras caught him running great power shovels to start excavations for public works, watched him hold court in a police station, excoriating racketeers, slot-machine purveyors. Only unguarded moment: a rump-wise view of His Honor clambering over the gunwhale...
Burned at Nice three-and-a-half years ago was the famed $3,900,000 gambling casino Palais de la Mediterranee built by the late railroading Jay Gould's son Frank Jay (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933 et seq.). Burned at Juan-les-Pins last week was another Gould casino, with Frank Jay inside as flames burst from the stage. "Under Gould's personal direction," reported Associated Press, "the crowd was evacuated...