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...Special Guard saluted His Excellency Julius Streicher. Governor of Franconia, Big Boss of Old Nurnberg and idol of all Germans who hate Jews. In his heavy right fist Herr Streicher gripped his personal trademark, the riding whip he always carries and is reputed to use on Nurnberg prisoners who vex...
There are two unemployment problems in the country, those of money and men. Though little attention has been paid to the first problem, the history of modern business depressions proves conclusively that the unemployment of men will continue to vex the leaders until the idle funds begin to find their way into the channels of business enterprise. In every depression it has been the reopening of capital markets and the investment of funds by private individuals which have ushered in the new era of business recovery and prosperity. But until the bankers and men of means can be satisfied that...
...always been considered a Legitimist, the pompous little Court of ex-Austrian Empress Zita in Steenockerzeel Castle near Louvain buzzed with a fury of preparation to pack off her handsome son Archduke Otto to Vienna as "Emperor" at the first opportunity. Sympathizing with Otto but anxious lest Belgium vex the Great Powers, King Leopold ordered every Belgian airfield watched. Officially the Belgian Government informed Zita's Court that she and her son are free to go, but only publicly. For years France bitterly opposed a Habsburg restoration in Vienna but Naziphobia among Frenchmen was rapidly bettering "Emperor" Otto's chances...
...overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight vex the victim...
Into action went Peru's Congress. It passed a bill specifically empowering the President "to commute death sentences imposed on would-be murderers to penal servitude." This was certainly a broad hint. Lest it vex the punctured President, whose military rank last week was that of Lieutenant Colonel, the Congress passed another bill promoting him retroactively to the rank of Colonel, this appointment to date from...