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...defendants in the Reichstag fire trial as all five were Communists of sorts. "The Reichstag fire is the most shameful crime in all history," declared Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring two days before the Supreme Court's verdict was expected. "The prisoners who sit in the dock at Leipzig are far worse than ordinary criminals!" That clinched the death sentences in the minds of simple Storm Troopers. Few of them knew or cared that State Prosecutor Karl Werner, after hurling philippics for weeks at the five Reds, had ended by admitting that the State had no case...
...rule. At this declaration bombs burst in air all over Havana. The rattle of rifle fire was heard through the night. But the morrow brought Mr. Caffery's steamer and sufficient calm for several hundred Cubans and U. S. citizens to stage a solemn welcome on the dock. Neither an Ambassador nor a Minister, Jefferson Caffery is the personal representative of President Roosevelt who does not recognize President Grau but deems it best to keep...
After sundown one day last week an airplane slipped in to a landing at "Round Hill," the South Dartmouth, Mass, estate of Hetty Green's stamp-collecting, air-minded son, Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green. It taxied up close to a capacious airship dock, and out of it stepped President Karl Taylor Compton and Vice President Vannevar Bush of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Waiting at the dock was svelte, Paris-gowned Mme Suritz, spouse of the Soviet Ambassador to Turkey. She had wired to Moscow well in advance for the more important measurements of the Soviet Cinderellas. ordered ball gowns likely to please Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha, had an expert modiste on hand in Istanbul to fit them. Used to cotton and worse, the Communist wives reveled in silk. "On my word." said a gallant Turkish Foreign Office official last week, "when the great ballroom of the Sultans in Dolmabagche Palace was filled with 3,000 guests in honor of Soviet Russia...
When Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. W. ("Tex") Settle's big stratosphere balloon was jockeyed out of its air dock at Akron one early morning last week only a few hundred persons had turned out to watch. On hand were no admirals, no major generals, no tycoons such as graced the seven-hour ceremonies preceding the Settle flight last August which was brought to a quick and ignominious finish in a Chicago railroad yard by a defective valve (TIME, Aug. 14). Since then Soviet stratospherists had made the chances of a new record harder by ascending to 11.8 mi. (TIME...