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...only exconvict in Congress* and I am hardboiled. I know how to handle Jews. I'm another Hitler." Then he punched Cohen in the eye. knocking him to the floor. Soon Shoemaker's doctor came & sewed up Cohen's face. Next day Cohen tried in vain to get a warrant for Shoemaker's arrest on charges of assault & battery. First, Shoemaker agreed to waive his Congressional immunity and stand trial. Later he changed his mind. Said he: "If it were for myself alone, I wouldn't hesitate for I could beat the case without trouble...
...proving mildly provoking for his autocratic regime with its incessant protests against his policies. This further increased the militancy and the student's tendencies toward futile exhibitionism. At present the government, according to the National Student League "resorts to open murder of the most active students in a vain attempt to stifle the protests against American Capitalistic exploitation of Cuba...
...London. Major oil producers met in Washington fortnight ago, recommended action to the White House which would hold the U. S. flow down to 2,000,000 bbl. per day. Many have been the conferences between producers of copper, nitrate and rubber during the last several years in vain attempts to control output, raise prices. At London such attempts may become accomplishments...
Last week the censored newspapers' only reproaches spoke from great white spaces. Accused of suppressing two, Terra replied that troops had merely shut off their electrical power, stopping the presses. Montevideo businessmen were satisfied. But inland the estancia owners and peons awoke from their doze, waited in vain for news from Montevideo. They picked up an occasional scanty radio report from the Argentine, spread rumor and uneasiness by word of mouth. Observers agreed that the Constitution from which all power had leaked last week was probably unrefillable. What the new Constitution would be depended on how well Dictator Terra...
Rarer still but now unknown was a red Masdevallia orchid powdered with gold. Lager once found a single specimen of it growing high in a South American tree. He searched in vain for more nearby, later found some 500 mi. away. He shipped a lot to the coast where they somehow got sidetracked. In a seaport warehouse they lay until they were dead. No one has yet found any more gold-powdered red orchids like that...