Word: hell
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Liberal majority in Parliament of 215-to-120, was in no very comfortable position. A week before he had been knifed by a member of his own Party, Ontario's Premier politician, who has something of the late Huey Long's capacity for raising political hell. Mitchell Hepburn rammed through the Ontario Legislature a resolution condemning the Ottawa Government for inefficiency in conducting the war (TIME, Jan. 29). With this Liberal stiletto still quivering between his broad shoulders, Prime Minister King prepared to face the verbal scalpels of Conservative Surgeon Manion...
...newly elected member of the Comitia. Since the new position of executive secretary, said Dr. Boas, had not been approved by the membership, according to Society rules, it was illegal. If one penny was paid Dr. Hamilton, he said, Manhattan Lawyers Root, Clark, Buckner and Ballantine would raise legal hell...
Lying around somewhere there must be a copy of "Incredible Tales" or "Amazing Stories" containing a novelette--complete in this issue--called "Green Hell." The story would run something like this...
...Inca ruins. Bradly didn't faint. He was a man. . . . The cannibals charged again, but Butch dipped a stick of dynamite at them and that held them back for a while. There was only one more round of ammunition apiece, and it was a thousand miles of green hell to the nearest civilization. Derek muttered. 'They won't make mincemeat out of me while I'm still alive. Cheerio, men.' He walked into the other room and there was a single shot. The cannibals charged again, and then a barrage of shots came from the other end of the clearing...
...HELL ON TRIAL-René Belbenoif-Dutton ($3). No Dreyfus, but an exceedingly tenacious gadfly, the famed fugitive of Devil's Island (Dry Guillotine) here adds further smelly details about life in the French penal colony. He also deals with allegedly innocent fellow convicts. Typical is Chariot Pain. His crime was setting fire to a $5 army tent during a sun-struck moment in Africa. Legally amnestied by French law in 1925, he is still at Devil's Island, 32 years after his original sentence. But not all Belbenoit's fellow convicts were such martyrs. From their...