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From Senlis, from Orléans, from Rouen, Chartres and Lyons they came, 8,000 grey-blue soldiers clumping into a Paris that, for the day, was placidly peaceful. Throughout the city headquarters were set up, rolling kitchens were fired and posts mounted. Workmen were out at dawn scattering clean yellow sand in the Place de la Concorde, the Place de la République and along the boulevards near the Chamber of Deputies to keep soldiers' horses from slipping. An emergency Cabinet headed by six onetime Premiers of France had taken charge. There had been bloody storms before...
Martial law was instantly declared in Vienna and all Upper Austria and the troops called out. Machine guns riddled the Socialist headquarters at Linz. Mountain batteries smashed the barricades of Socialist workmen in the Danube shipyards. Armored trucks with blazing guns tore up & down the streets of Vienna. The Government outlawed the Socialist Party; and Heimwehr youths in grey-green overcoats and steel helmets took possession of Vienna's city hall, for years a Socialist stronghold. Burgomaster Karl Seitz was held prisoner. Army howitzers whanged away at Karl Marx court, largest apartment building in Europe, housing some...
...world was less fortunate. Although he is a trustee of Manhattan's Metropolitan and Modern Art museums, one of his first family duties was to blot off the walls of Rockefeller Center the Communistic murals of Artist Diego Rivera. He doled out prizes to Rockefeller Center workmen. He was tutored in showmanship by Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel. He grappled the problem of populating his father's vast acres of office space with rent-paying tenants. And as an unofficial renting agent, he seemed to be an indisputable success...
Twenty-two years ago, already an old man, he returned to Mull to fulfill his dream. Masons and workmen went to work and soon the towers of Duart Castle were standing again. Last week at 98 he was the oldest Highland chieftain, with tasseled sporran and a jeweled skean dhus dirk in his stocking. But the buckles on his pumps were no brighter than his blue eyes. In addition to the hardy souls who journeyed to Duart Castle to make merry amid ancestral scenes, Macleans in Canada, India and the U. S. were drinking Sir Fitzroy 's health...
...world silver prices actually mount all nations will soon be laying down goods in China at very cheap rates in terms of China's silver money. Result of this dumping is likely to be deflation in China. Chinese workmen will be thrown out of work, and the probable result will be actual reduction of China's demand for foreign goods including U. S. cotton, oil, lumber...