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...Hearst's San Francisco Examiner had just made one "shot" of The Chief ("WR") being handshaken at city hall by Mayor James ("Sunny Jim'') Rolph Jr. He reached for his bottle of flashlight powder, to prepare another. As he removed the stopper there was a searing flash, a dull detonation, a blast of choking smoke and flying glass. The crowd of 3,000 milled and trampled at the cry of "bomb!" Photographer Shelton lost a thumb, nearly lost an eye from what every photographer fears-hot embers falling into the powder bottle...
...Prince & Whitely, Manhattan brokers, opened a branch office in the old Hotel Willard, Washington, D. C., engaged the first private wire from the Capitol to Manhattan. On July 2, 1881, this wire was used to flash word of President James A. Garfield's assassination, giving Prince & Whitely clients an advantageous time margin in the market shock which followed. At that time the firm was three years old. Since then it has survived many a severe depression including at least six actual stockmarket panics. Last week it failed. Almost coincidentally a "New Economic Theory" seemed to sweep the emotions of volatile...
...Revolution"- much as batches of counter-revolutionaries are being shot today in Russia (see p. 20). In Turkey as in Russia the one-party system seems to have worked well (from the standpoint of stability of the regime) but abruptly two months ago Dictator Kemal, a man of lightning-flash ideas which terrify his friends, decided that Turkey must have at least two parties, resolved to create an Opposition to himself...
...flash of the moment is brightest and can move unsettled nations. Hitler and the Fascist gains in the Reichstag, Russia's tapping of her tremendous resources, the rumors of Russia's dealing on the world wheat market, the bickering in the League, China's militarism, Japan's watchful waiting, the naval break between France and Italy, the international tariff blockades, all these things and many more, make these days portentous. Sarajevo was but a spark, and there are signs of internal combustion the world over...
...take Fort Sumter; Lincoln walking in the White House halls in his stocking feet because he has insomnia; a long line of telegraphers getting despatches from the fighting line; General Philip Henry Sheridan and his staff in their wild gallop to reorganize their broken army cutting, in a flash of steel and a streamer of dust, across the corner of a cornfield; the assassination...