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...their retainers against the National Peasant Party Government. Last week Dino and his Liberals threatened King Carol: unless he let them form a Government they would fill Bucharest with at least 100,000 protest marchers. Craven, the King yielded, announcing "My people, this step is taken to prevent an outbreak of violence in the capital and its spread throughout Rumania...
...been informed two months ago that Chicago was suffering an outbreak of amebic dysentery, a good many people might have stayed away from the city, with consequent loss to its Fair, hotels and restaurants. Not until last week, when the city's Congress and Auditorium hotels broke the story by canceling scheduled banquets, did the situation become public. By that time the Fair was ready to close (see p. 53), the epidemic under control...
...first two cases were traced to the big, popular Congress Hotel on South Michigan Boulevard. Examination of 364 of its food handlers revealed 15 active cases, 11 carriers. One of them was the Assyrian cook thought to have been the source of Chicago's last outbreak of the disease, in 1927. Infected employes were also discovered at the nearby Auditorium Hotel, and two restaurants...
...outbreak of the Civil War, Lily and her Virginia mother departed for Paris, but in 1863 she was back in San Francisco to receive the greatest honor of her career, election as full member of Knickerbocker Fire...
...Teneff--to demonstrate quite conclusively that only if sudden insanity had seized them would they even have conceived the idea of burning the Reichstag, and that as a matter of strict fact it was physically impossible, none of them having been near the place within hours of the outbreak of fire. Torgler especially impressed the court and the world with the imbecility of charging either himself or his party of an act wholly inconsistent with the known principles and plans of the German Communists. The fourth defendant, van der Lubbe, is an obvious type of village idiot who was discharged...