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...every place a band of mothers who will unite in prayer and seek by their own example to lead their own families in purity and holiness." *Persons who banned the Simpson story and made no bones about so doing last week were King Carol in Rumania, the Yugoslavian Regency, Tsar Boris in Bulgaria and Director Sam Wood of the Four Marx Brothers. ''Mrs. Simpson is associated with a figure beloved by the American people," said cautious Director Wood in Hollywood. "It would be professional suicide," continued Mr. Wood, "for a comedian to make a national hero the subject...
...pudgy fingers of Adolf Hitler one day last week gave a soft, squashy handshake to this array of luncheon guests: His Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria; Dictator Mussolini's sons Bruno and Vittorio; His Royal Highness Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and his youngest sister Maria; Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Sweden...
Next door to Greece is Bulgaria. Last week its Little Tsar Boris, also troubled by Reds, was on a swift trip to consult Mussolini in Rome, then Hitler in Berlin. Nebulously an international European Fascist solidarity seemed forming to counter-balance the Communist International...
...Nazi Germany's most dangerous clowns is round, red Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, who affects a riding crop, likes to be called the "Bloody Tsar of Nürnberg," and lards his anti-Jew harangues with so much sexual obscenity that they can be printed in full only in his own Der Strümer. Last week a naturalized U. S. citizen named Ludwig Hoffmann was in a Nürnberg jail for having had the audacity to describe Nürnberg's Boss Streicher as a Lump at a Nürnberg beer festival. Citizen Hoffmann...
...John Wilkes Booth was long exhibited, with the tale that Lincoln's assassin escaped from the burning barn near Fredericksburg, Va., became a conscience-stricken wanderer, killed himself in Enid, Okla. in 1903 (TIME, Dec. 28, 1931). Some other legendary survivors: Louis Charles, Dauphin of France; Earl Kitchener; Tsar Nicholas II; Belgian Banker Alfred Lowenstein. As the years passed there grew up in the North Carolina countryside a firm belief that Peter Stuart Ney had actually been the Marshal of France. Amateur historians delved into the matter, wrote earnest monographs and pamphlets. Their explanation: Marshal Ney's firing...