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Thus spoke Premier Mussolini six weeks ago when the anarchist Gino Lucetti flung a bomb at him in Rome and missed him (TIME, Sept. 20). Last week II Duce visited Bologna. Amid a teeming throng he opened the new athletic Stadium Littoriale. As he rode away a youth darted from the crowd and fired point blank at Signor Mussolini. The bullet ripped away a piece of cloth from the Premier's coat, pierced the sash of the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus which he wore, grazed the sleeve of the Mayor of Bologna...
Herr Bürgermeister Petersen of Hamburg ducked and dabbed at his coat amid a shower of fizzing champagne droplets. "I christen thee New York!" cried Mrs. James J. Walker, wife of New York's mayor, and laughed because she had flung the champagne bottle with too much violence. Simultaneously two bands blared Deutschland Ueber Alles and The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Here we are quibbling over a miserable two or three dollars," cried Dr. Lewis C. Menger, taking up the budget, "when we spend millions every years for tobacco, autos and hops." A 10% increase of budget was voted amid cheers. Other pronouncements: "The Federated Council of Churches of Christ in America appears to go far in attempting in the name of Protestantism what it condemns in Romanism"; Japan, in spite of seeming progress, is "idolatrous, superstitious, immoral...
When President Ernest Bartels of the Landtag announced the first reading of the bill, the Communists rose, en masse, shouting: "Traitor! Tool of tyrants! Bootlicker of the Hohenzollerns! . . ." Amid pandemonium the Communists sought to introduce a motion of lack of confidence against Prussian Premier Otto Braun (Socialist). When this motion was defeated and the Hohenzollern bill passed its second reading 210 to 38 the Communists forced a five minute suspension of the Landtag by their shouts of rage and dispersed to plan a filibuster by violence...
When the Landtag again assembled to debate the bill, a phalanx of police guards protected the President and the Ministerial Bench. Vociferous but impotent the Communists introduced one obstructionist resolution after another. The Hohenzollern bill, finally debated amid groans and hisses, passed 258 to 37 with 65 abstentions...