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Several hours later Prisoner Insull, having been fingerprinted and having received back his watch and his $21 in cash from the clerk of the county jail, was set free. He walked out carrying a black suitcase of imitation leather and drove off with his son-in-law, Major William Rafferty...
...Merebbi. For 16 years Merebbi's home has been the wide Moroccan Desert and the passes of the Atlas Mountains. By day he has worn dust on his tongue, sand in his eyes, and in his heart the resolve to wrest Morocco from the Christians. Last week a leather-skinned man stalked into the Spanish garrison at Cape Jubion the coast of Spain's colony of Rio de Oro south of Morocco. "I am a political exile from French Morocco," said he. "I ask for your protection. I am the Blue Sultan." In Madrid Spain's Premier...
Economics where they found the Herr Reichsminister Kurt Schmitt in the correct costume for a Nazi economist : the black tunic and tight leather belt of Adolf Hitler's personal bodyguard. "The main purpose of this reconstruction." said Minister Schmitt, "is to coordinate business and the State. Private business will remain, but it will be put in the service of the people and the State. . . . Honest competition must be but it is to be controlled by strong leadership, focused magnetlike upon the supreme goal of commonweal and service to the nation." With the rhetoric went a plan. All industry...
...while newsreel cameras waited. Senators basked in more publicity than they had had in months. Promptly at 10:30, bareheaded and wearing a grey suit without a vest, Col. Lindbergh strode in amid a thunder of applause. He shook hands with Chairman McKellar, sat down stiffly in a red leather chair, flipped through a copy of the bill, drummed his fingers on the table, smiled. Brisk and businesslike, the flyer identified himself as technical adviser to Transcontinental & Western Air and Pan American Airways, said he received a combined salary of $16,000 per year. Hunched forward in' his chair...
Down in flames amid a thunder of exploding bullets came Springfield, Ill.'s huge, old National Guard Armory last month. Only clue to the $750,000 fire's origin was a small boy in leather jacket and tweed cap who that morning had reported to the custodian a small blaze in the armory's washroom...