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...Carlo, sleek, hard Casino Director René Léon, far more potent than fusty old Prince Louis of Monaco, was under withering fire last week from Monégasques who loudly demanded his scalp. On top of the wallop Depression gave Monte Carlo had come a second staggering blow, the decision of the French Government in 1933 to legalize roulette, hitherto a Monte monopoly, in France. Groggy from these two crushers, Director Léon faced last week the minute principality's irate National Assembly. Shouted a deputy who was promptly seconded by Mayor Louis Aureglia of Monte...
...Versailles. He has not won for Germany a single scrap of territory, not even Danzig, much less the Polish Corridor. If the Saar, which, before Hitler, was considered all but in Germany's bag, should vote next week to remain under League trusteeship or to join France, the blow to Nazi prestige inside Germany would be titanic...
...Newton Diehl Baker. New York Central's fast Midnight Express (Columbus-Cleveland) was running with double-header locomotives near Delaware, Ohio when it shot out of a cut-off junction, just in time to catch the Eastern Mail on the main line. It took a wrecking crew with blow torches ten hours to get Engineer F. E. Springer's body out of the overturned second locomotive of the Mid night Express...
...calves from the plains of Texas to the clover fields of Iowa go annually to market. . . . At the slaughterhouse, in the dim bluish light of the knocking pens, a Negro swings his three-pound hammer. Crack! On the steer's skull midway between the scared eyes the blow falls. Great shackles swing down to lift the limp stunned animal, head down, rump high. The short curved knife bites deep into the bristled neck seeking the throbbing artery. Into great cans oozes the dark red blood, 70 Ib. to the steer. . . . Pigs skewered by the feet to an overhead track...
...against English Capitalism that the fatal blow must be struck! . . . Five per cent of Englishmen are the biggest property owners. They oppress not only the remaining population but also thousands of peoples of other nationalities- Indians, Persians, Chinese, etc.! Each English capitalist forces about 100 English workers and several hundred workers in England's colonies and the oppressed countries to drudge for him. . . . These enslaved people must unite! Yes, we must array ourselves against the English bourgeoisie. We must seize the English Imperialist by the throat and trample him underfoot...