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...Five Communists and one police-man were pinked. In Brunswick, 75,000 Hitlerites assembled to receive new swastica standards from their chief. Intoxicated by blaring bands, shouting orators, and the roar of airplane motors the young Brownshirts got completely out of hand, staged an impromptu raid of the Communist workmen's quarters of the city. Street barricades were thrown up, pistols cracked, brickbats hurtled through the air. At least 15 men were gravely wounded. One Col. Hoffmann, former commandant of the fortress of Ingolstadt, was expected to die. Brunswick police, hopelessly outnumbered, telephoned frantically for tanks and armored cars...
...President noticed from his office window some workmen unearthing fragments of China from a tunnel being dug for the heating system, and upon investigation found them to be part of the blue Staffordshire china, decorated with engravings of Harvard buildings, used in the College dining hall about a century...
Election day was not dull. Expecting trouble, workmen early spread yellow sand over Santiago streets so that charging cavalry should not slip. The Government mobilized the full force of 18,000 mounted gendarmes and sent them picking their way over the sand about as heavily armored as any policeman could be: a long lance in one hand, a sabre at the saddle bow, a rifle across the back, a pistol...
...George E. Thomas of Chicago refuted the story, circulated by women students at Northwestern University, that longtime President Frances Elizabeth Willard of the W. C. T. U. had once been caught with a half-burned cigaret (TIME, Oct. 5). Mr. Thomas revealed that a group of workmen on the campus conspired to plant a lighted cigaret in Miss Willard's room as a joke. They drew lots; the task of placing the cigaret fell to Letter Writer Thomas' father, Philip...
...England's New Statesman & Nation, Scientist Louis Herrman revived and elaborated Author Herbert George Wells's plan for carrying jobless workmen through periods of depression by mildly refrigerating them, hibernating them until society again needs them. The method: Cool the body to about 75° F. Then it would shiver, warm & wake itself up, according to Scientist Herrman. Insulin would inhibit the shivering but cause convulsions. Cooling to 70° would stop the convulsions. Corollaries of the plan: "Hibernation might be prescribed as a perfect cure for a nervous breakdown or any form of neurasthenia. Social historians...