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Three months ago if an ordinary Italian citizen had been asked how soon the Italian government would sign a trade treaty with Soviet Russia, how soon Italian workmen would build ships for the Bolsheviks, the citizen would have replied that only a miracle could bring such things to pass. Undying opposition to Communism and all its manifestations is the very cornerstone of Fascism...
...Weehawken, N. J., John Moyer, Negro, went into a workmen's outhouse, lit a cigaret, dropped the match down the sewer. Benzine in the sewer exploded,, leaped out and seared John Moyer, ignited grass in the surrounding field. Racing through the sewer the flame blasted the covers off 156 Weehawken manholes, causing residents to scurry to their cellars. Firemen were summoned to put out a blaze on an Erie R. R. freight loading platform, started by the burning grass. A chicken crate factory started burning down; two firefighters were overcome. A paper factory also caught fire. Match-thrower Moyer...
...clarity." The "red snow" had sterilized humanity. With all the restraints of care for posterity at once removed, civilization began to disintegrate. Racial hatreds flamed and religious wars burst out. Fanatics seized governments. The U. S. sent a crusading army of ten million into central Asia. Economic systems faltered. Workmen abandoned their labors. Women became untamed sexual aggressors. Problems that would occupy 20 volumes are dismissed in sentences. Nations perish in a paragraph, continents in a chapter. Each phase of the debacle is outlined with unflagging vigor and a wild flow of words. Finally Phaeton Andrews, last man to survive...
...until its formal dissolution last week. Friedrich Baltrusch and Ernst Lemeer, Protestant Trade Unions leaders, were listed among the new party's leaders. Observers saw in this an attempt to bring into the Staatspartei the Protestant workers of Germany as the German Centrist party absorbed German Catholic workmen...
...rain." explained the Chinese shipmaster. "Workmen won't work in the rain without umbrellas, and the Cantonese soldiers have mobilized all our umbrellas." The U. S. commandant did not argue...