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...Senate, its nerves torn by spies and bomb threats, frothed at the White House scare. Some Senators had the feeling that President Hoover was trying to stir up more public hostility against the Senate, to create the impression that Congress was on a spending spree. Up rose Virginia's sharp-tongued Carter Glass to declare...
...with France and Russia, reluctantly but vigorously led Great Britain into the World War. Last week, though his years are now three-score and seven, and though his eyes are very dim indeed, Lord Grey made a brief, dignified public statement which had the effect of a dynamite depth bomb on his party-Liberal...
...Cabinet, Mme Yakovleva was until last week Assistant Commissar of Education for the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. She is 44, boasts that she has never in all her life possessed as much as Rubles 1,000 ($510). Career: She became a revolutionist at deep-dimpled 19, flung a bomb, was exiled and imprisoned, grew morose and introspective, escaped, flung another bomb, was again exiled and imprisoned, became hard-featured and hollow-cheeked, again escaped, flung no more bombs, led the frugal, self-denying, intensely industrious life of a typical Communist zealot, rose steadily in the Party to her present...
...other more sinister reports. In changing the title of his country from "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes" to the "Kingdom of Jugoslavia," Dictator-King Alexander has set boiling afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at Zagreb a sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway station one Dr. Rittig, Croatian priest who had protested...
...Chicago one Charles Piazza, barber, returning from the hospital where his wife had just borne a boy, found that Chicago's 105th bomb in 1929 had exploded in his house...