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...leaving Manhattan, Sheldon Harte had visited Leon Trotsky's lawyer, Albert Goldman, who hired the youth to work in Mexico City as a secretary-bodyguard to the Great Exile. Last month Sheldon was kidnapped by a terrorist group who riddled the Trotsky home with bullets, tossed an incendiary bomb into the courtyard, killed nobody in the house (TIME, June 3). Next day Jesse S. Harte (until then unaware of his son's job with Trotsky) enplaned in Manhattan, streaked to Mexico City, offered 10,000 pesos ($2,035) reward for Sheldon...
Suddenly an explosion shook the vessel, one Argentine lay dead and five wounded as a result of an improvised time bomb concealed in a beef tin. An hour later pro-Nazi, Hitler-decorated Secretary of the Navy Leon Lorenzo Scasso expediently glossed over the affair: "A fire, source unknown." Threatened by a strong tendency toward native Fascism from within, alarmed by President Vargas' utterances as head of its most important rival for South American leadership, faced by a 30% decrease of European markets since the outbreak of the war (although trade with Britain is way up), Argentina too turned...
...alive with Spanish artillery, troops and prostitutes. From this quarter even a horde of German shock troops would have difficulty storming the British guns trained from camouflaged, cement-lined galleries that are cut deep enough (by General Sir Edmund Ironside, the Rock's former commandant) to defy overhead bomb attacks...
...like a track meet, the University of Michigan finished first with 26 points. Williams was second with 25, University of Detroit third with 24. Highest individual scorer was Williams' Bill Watson. He won all his club's points: first in spot-landing from 500 ft., second in bomb-dropping, third in spot-landing from...
...meeting in London to discuss home defense, Clement Davies, M. P. stormed: "Any schoolboy who can throw a cricket ball can throw a bomb. Women should have grenades with which to defend their homes and babies." - Correct: "Labor omnia vincit...