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...also made his bow to democracy by promising a free campaign to the badly split anti-Peronist as (Radicals, Socialists, Communists, Nationalists). When Radicals got out 70,000 people for a rally in Buenos Aires' Plaza Once, the brakes of a tramcar that had somehow been abandoned nearby were mysteriously released and the car rolled into the crowd. When anti-Peronistas tried to put up posters, they were told that the law forbade...
...Croatian terrorist assassinated King Alexander. Almost as if by magic, men & women bearing flowers appeared at the spot where the King was shot. Soon the street was covered with flowers piled high. When the police tried to break up this tribute, the people of Marseille bought tramcar tickets, dropped their flowers out of the cars. When the police closed the flower stores, the people dropped paper flowers...
...Jews took up the cry. Jewish mothers clawed their way through the crowd, pried well-slobbered candy out of their children's mouths, turned on the candy-giver. The kindly woman saw a rim of angry faces, felt slaps, blows, kicks, cuffs, scratches. A conductor leaped off his tramcar, went to her rescue. The crowd mauled him thoroughly. Soon the cobbles rang with mounted police. The Jews fell back a little, screaming for the woman's arrest. The police took her and her candy to the police station, found both quite harmless...
...ruddy-faced young Englishman on a tramcar was reading a copy of a U. S. magazine. A smell of perspiration and wet woolens arose from the people around him. They were people like himself, of obscure destiny and unimportant identity, working people, going home to supper. The young man was 20 years old, a clerk by profession, secretary to one Thomas Gibson Bowles, proprietor and editor of Vanity Fair. The article he read told about Thomas Edison...
...land, stories began to trickle into the newspapers telling of the havoc wrought by the cyclone. At Folkestone, a motor truck was blown into the sea and the driver killed. At Portsmouth, a tramcar was blown into a house. In Wales, the coal mines were flooded. Along the Thames, people were "drowned out of their houses." From every coastal point, news came to London telling of angry waves battering the piers and swamping the promenades. Damage to telegraph and telephone wires greatly interfered with communication, while Channel boats suspended service between England and France...