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Steadfastly ignored at first by President Smith, the malcontents ascended to a gallery, where they stamped, catcalled and finally picked a fist fight which made proceedings impossible. Roused, "Old Herbie" Smith dashed from platform to gallery, shouting, "I'm 65, but [to one of the Reds] I'll throw you out, Bill Allen...
...laid down their political tomahawks solely because of the desperate emergency created by the slithering fall of the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Today the paper franc is good as gold; and French politicians have not lost the art of quarrelling. For example, Deputy Oran Molle doubled his fist, in the Chamber lobby, last week, and aimed a blow at Deputy Freissineng, who nimbly ducked, remarking: "Merci, mon ami! But today it is too hot to fight." Soon all Deputies trooped in to hear the Prime Minister set forth the policies of his Cabinet and appeal for a general vote...
...until last week, however, would even potent Mexicans have dared to cry "Rapscallion!" at steelyeyed, quick-triggered General José. Then, suddenly, President Plutarco Elias Calles, bull-necked and bushy-browed, took pen into heavy fist and dashed an angry signature onto a proclamation: "To my greatest surprise, and assuredly that of the entire country, it has been discovered that one of the highest officials of the Administration and a prominent member of the army, General José Alvarez, the Chief of my Headquarters Staff, who had enjoyed my friendship and confidence, has proved traitor to the most elementary principles...
...South America is being Americanized rapidly. Now on the other hand, it is very sad to see how the States are becoming South Americanized more rapidly than we are becoming Americanized. To wit, some weeks ago two Senators insulted each other and proceeded to have a regular fist fight within the precincts of the Senate. Again, during elections in Chicago, "pineapples exploded" and fights at the polling booths were plentiful. Can you get anything more South American than this two items? We used to do that before we started our Americanization...
...Chinese province, but the home of numerous Japanese colonists. Tsinan is the capital of Shantung. From Tsinan efficient professional Japanese troops drove, last week, ten times their number of ragged, nondescript Chinese soldiery. Right or wrong, the Japanese Commander, General Fukuda, struck blow after crushing blow with a mailed fist constituted by 5,000 Japanese troops which he recently brought up from the seaport of Tsingtao (TIME, May 14). When 6,000 desperate Chinese took refuge in the old walled quarter of Tsinan, last week, and later attempted with great bravery to fight their way out, Japanese machine gunners mowed...