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Robin Hood in the Jungle. Among those who rebelled was Segundo David Peralta, a bookbinder from Tucuman, who took to the jungle with a band that soon grew to 30 or 40 members. Objects of his wrath were the brokers and big companies, who not only dictated sales prices but sometimes charged as much as 30% interest on loans. Sweeping out of the jungle in organized forays, Mate Cosido* and his well-armed men have staged at least seven big holdups, netting over 90,000 pesos ($21,420). He distributes the loot among the neediest farmers and pickers, thereby assuring...
Died. Catherine Rzewuska Kolb-Danvin, 83, onetime Princess Radziwill; in Manhattan. Daughter of a Tsarist Army officer, she married Prince Adam Charles Radziwill, before his death was secretary to the German Empress Frederick. In the U.S. she became a prolific and much-disputed writer, drew the wrath and denials of the Soviet Embassy in 1938 when she wrote in Liberty an "interview" with Joseph Stalin hinting at a Russian-German alliance...
...continuation of strikes and sabotage in industry while we induct men into service to give their all, perhaps their lives, at Army pay." A Georgia draft board had had the same indignant thought. Although there was a period of halfway quiet on the labor front, the public's wrath over labor disputes did not abate. How could people know that there might not be more of the same still coming? When was the Government going to do something about...
circuit judge in Iowa. The New Deal wants to give him the judgeship, now vacant. Indeed, Eicher would have been a judge two years ago except for the wrath of Iowa's Senator Guy Gillette-who still resents Eicher's part in the New Deal's unsuccessful attempt to purge...
Lanky, lame, cranky, 65-year-old Charles Grey Grey,* editor for 28 years of Britain's top aviation magazine, The Aeroplane, last week brought down the wrath of Britons on himself for no more heinous crime than writing rudely about the U.S. When Editor Grey has not been rumpusing with the British Air Ministry, he has injected into his technical publication noisy U.S.-baiting ("the civilized world and the United States of America"). Sometimes he has combined the two. In 1938, when the British bought 400 U.S. planes, Editor Grey called it "a disgraceful deal," yammered that "to order...