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...Chamber of Deputies fortnight ago, after a fisticuffing, shin-kicking fight, the Deputies voted 427-10-103 complete vindication of the Minister of Interior who was then & there embraced by Premier Blum. Both wept, apparently for joy. Why then did hard-boiled and triumphantly-vindicated Roger Salengro commit suicide last week...
This week in Tampa, Florida, the American Federation of Labor will probably commit suicide. Unless there is a miracle the dominant craft unions will expell the ten unions forming the Committee for Industrial Organization and by this stroke will split off the militant groups which are determined to organize the bulk of the working class. Labor solidarity may go out of the window, but the labor movement is far from being knifed in the back, as President Green of the A.F. of L. claims...
...slant eyes of the Far East, China appallingly "lost face" by this Tangku Truce, which has been stretched by Japan in the ensuing months to legalize any outrage Japanese or Koreans chose to commit in North China. In the spring of 1936, not only were Japanese-smuggled sugar, artificial-silk and cigaret paper selling openly in Peiping for less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them, but the Chinese state railways were each day running a "smugglers" freight car" coupled to the morning passenger train which entered North China from the Japanese puppet Empire of Manchukuo...
...money-in spite of its cheap canned soup campaign-in the first quarter, cleared $143,706 in the second quarter, upped the figure to $861,365 for the third quarter. Boomed Soup-man Albanus Phillips in issuing his statement: "Please bear in mind . . . that I do not wish to commit the company to the issuance of quarterly statements...
...soldiers marched the mutinous sailors to jail whence they expected to be sent to the Portuguese penal colony in the tropics. In an adroit proclamation the Portuguese Government intimated that it had known beforehand of the coming mutiny and, instead of nipping it, had deliberately permitted the sailors to commit a crime and receive a punishment which Dictator Oliveira Salazar trusted last week will impress other Portuguese sympathetic with proletarian Madrid. In Lisbon cafes it was jest-of-the-week to observe: "The Great Powers are so neutral they don't care whether the Spanish Fascists, the Carlists...