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Still later the Ogpu was given yet another name to make it seem more like a normal European Ministry of Interior, became the Commissariat of Interior, under the reigning Ogpu chief, smudge-mustached, pudgy-fingered Comrade Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevitch Yagoda. Moscow's official daily Pravda ("Truth") hailed the terrorist clique in its new role as Commissariat of Interior thus: "Long has the Ogpu worn a halo formed of the deep love of tens of millions of workers and peasants both in our Soviet land and abroad!"* Last week Comrade Yagoda's Commissariat of Interior became the Commissariat General...
...appearance of this Nova, according to Campbell, has made available much more date, both visually and spectrosopically, than any previous appearance of a Nova. This may lead to an explanation of what takes place in the interior of a star. Most stars are not in such a state of flux, and conceal their interiors with clouds of luminous gases, but Nova Herculis represents a remarkable example of stellar activity...
...protect but to save, last week, Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes made nationwide headlines as Petroleum Administrator with a strong appeal that all exports of petroleum to the combatants in Ethiopia be barred. Mr. Ickes crossed his fingers by reminding reporters that he has "no authority at all" to regulate the export...
...franc weakened somewhat and Premier Pierre Laval was harassed last week by French Radicals, Reactionary Captain Henri Bonneville de Marsangy attended a Radical meeting, raised a bucket of blood high, deluged Radical onetime Minister of Interior Eugène Frot. To inquisitive police peppery Captain de Marsangy replied with a snort, "Of course I got the blood at a slaughterhouse...
...beginning at the end of a "perfect" kidnapping, picking up the kidnappers at the point where, receiving the ransom money, they begin their flight. A serious complication develops when the gang finds that a young couple have taken shelter in their hideout, a deserted farmhouse. In that simple interior and a few exteriors (the grounds of the house, the countryside around it) is played a drama so compact and terrifying it makes other G-men stories seem like Mother Goose. Although the operations of Government agents provide initial tension, the real drama is the conflict of the criminal characters, worked...