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When Dictator Carmona returned to Lisbon, after putting down the mutiny at Oporto, he arrived in an armored car, and well supported by airplanes and troops, which enabled him to resume with bomb and shot his despot's grip upon the capital...
There had been another battle down in Little Egypt,± and of all the places for a good machine-gun-spattering, bomb-throwing fight there was none better, than the late "Shady Rest." Not far from Herrin, Ill., it was the pastoral citadel of Charles Birger, bootlegger, gunman, gang chieftain. Carl Shelton, whose profession is the same as Mr. Birger's, had set out to get Mr. Birger. The ruins and the four dead bodies were the result. But Messrs. Birger and Shelton are still alive and plotting. Perhaps, they will really get one another some day. Their attempts...
Like a stern grey cat clawing feathers one by one from a gaudy canary Dictator Stalin of Russia has spent eleven months mercilessly divesting of his powers the once great Gregory Zinoviev, "spiritual son of Lenin," "bomb-boy of Bolshevism," arch-director of plots in every land to subvert world capitalism...
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...
...Gregory Zinoviev of the Third International was not elected to the Praesidium. Neither was once omnipotent Leon Trotsky. Recently in open opposition to "Boss" Stalin, they have been forced to desist from obstructing him (TIME, Oct. 25), and figuratively whipped into a corner. During the week M. Zinoviev, "the bomb-boy of Bolshevism," archadvocate of violent onslaughts upon Capitalism, growled to his intimates, "Henceforth my work with the Third International is impossible...