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Second stop was a tax administration office with which Harun-al-Carol had no cause for complaint. Third and fourth stops were a casualty reception depot and another police station, both closed for the day. In little black books the aides entered the names of all delinquent officials for immediate dismissal. Back to the palace went King Carol, feeling he had done something to earn his night's repose...
...complaint frequently heard in the little Italian hill-town that nothing exciting ever happened there. When indefatigable Lawyer Belotti arranged for the visit of an opera company everyone licked his chops, looked forward longingly. When the company arrived the town went wild. Business boomed, stood still or went backward, according to whether you were...
Lest the Treasury's embargo look like a political discrimination against Russia, the State Department last week instructed its consuls throughout the world to report on convict-made goods in their respective areas with a view to including other countries in the embargo. Complaint by U. S. tobacco producers, feeling the pinch of competition, that-Sumatra cigar wrappers from the Dutch East Indies were convict-grown caused the Treasury to start investigating. Under, study also were rubber imports from slave-ridden Liberia, phosphates from Morocco...
Arrested on complaint of the elder Litsinger, Mrs. Blacklidge satisfied the Springfield police that she had been duped. Not content with this, Mr. Litsinger forwarded his accusations to the State's Attorney, charged Mrs. Blacklidge with complicity to defraud him, posted a reward of $2,000 for the three confidence men. He failed to identify notorious Jules ("Nicky") Arnstein of Manhattan as one of the cozeners...
...sentenced to three months in jail. True, the regular licensed bordellos- licensed by the Fascist Government-were not closed, but inspectors of the female occupants were put on their mettle. Under Italian law, as was widely pointed out last week, a man can only be arrested for philandering upon complaint of the lady's husband, if she has one. But a woman can be arrested on complaint of anyone on a "common warrant...