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Morally this was indeed a blow to Dr. Müller, but the Reichsbischof, knowing perfectly well that his acts have been illegal for months, recently had them retroactively confirmed by an act of his hand-picked Church Synod which has yet to be tested in the courts...
Machinery for the new plant was entirely supplied by Soviet Russia, Dictator Stalin sending it as a "loan without interest" to Dictator Kemal, to be paid back in Turkish goods in 20 years. In the Turkish Parliament the queer opposition groups, which Dictator Kemal fosters and maintains expressly to blow off steam against himself, have charged that the Five Year Plan is "pure Communism," but Premier Ismet declared last week that Turkey's tariffs have been upped so high that private capitalists, seemingly unafraid, are now building cotton mills behind the tariff walls at such a rate that within...
When the mixture fumed and sputtered like a devil's cauldron, Wallace Foreman realized his error. He bellowed. Seven other men came running, hastily agreed that 9 gal. of nitroglycerin had been inadvertently manufactured. Nine ounces, they knew, was enough to blow them to bits. There was a mad rush for telephones...
...Governor Allen appoint Long henchmen to the local Board of Tax Assessors, advised citizens to ignore the Walmsley board's assessments. Finally Boss Long prodded Governor Allen into a moral crusade against Mayor Walmsley, charging that his police had protected bawdy houses, dice games, other iniquities. As a final blow the Governor, early last week, declared "partial" martial law in New Orleans, marched in his guardsmen, seized the office of the local registrar of voters, "purged" the rolls of some 24,000 names which would undoubtedly "vote Walmsley" in the September primary...
...bottom of the bag ripped open with "a noise like a deep grunt." Leaking hydrogen, the Explorer bounced up & down for a half hour before she began to fall at a good clip. To bail out was impossible. "If we get out up here," radioed Major Kepner, "we will blow up like paper bags...