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...groups" phrase of Vargas' farewell note into a specific blast against the U.S. Red-manned sound-trucks egged crowds on to attack the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) building and the glass-walled U.S. embassy. At the embassy police opened up with machine guns and tear gas, routing the mob and wounding a dozen rioters...
...Movements may be as formless as a shifting fog, as destructive as a stream of lava, as senseless as a panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in one direction. It is a movement of churches toward their own center, a concentration of Christendom on Christ. Because we see through a glass darkly, because we get in each other's way a good deal, because we are sinners and because we are involved in the world...
Whether accurate or not, for a few tense days last week the sensational disclosures threatened to topple autocratic old (71) Getulio Vargas from power. Opposition Deputies demanded that Vargas resign. One morning a mob of 2,000 swarmed up the Avenida Rio Branco, shouting: "Down with Vargas," tore down Luthero's campaign posters and overturned and set fire to a campaign car bearing pro-Vargas slogans...
...next outburst came in the oil town of Petit jean (pop. 70,000). The rumor (entirely false) had got about that Ben Youssef had escaped from Madagascar and was on his way home. A mob collected, and in half-patriotic, half-religious frenzy, turned on Jewish shopkeepers, killing six and burning their bodies...
...Throw some more gelignite, Jack," shouted jokers in the mob that met Murray's car. Murray was too busy adding up his winnings: $2,225 in prize money, $4,162 for endorsing tires, sparkplugs and other products, plus a $2,925 house. However, Garageman Murray's tow car would never again be the same...