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...Plot." First published in 1905 by a Russian named Sergei Nilus, the Protocols are supposed to be a verbatim account of a secret meeting of Jewish Elders. Composed of 24 separate Protocols, the work is variously intended in various editions to represent a speech by one Elder, or the successive speeches of 24 Elders. Machiavellian, wily and devious are the methods by which the Elders plan to gain their world hegemony. According to the Protocols "he who would rule must have recourse to cunningness and hypocrisy." Biding their time while they contrive the collapse of Christian society, the Elders plan...
...Messrs. Lewis are not related, nor are they professional playwrights. But they have managed to produce a drama which entertains, although it does not always convince, by placing their plot on the broad back of a beguiling rascal named Asa ("Ace") Burdette (Fred Stone). "Ace" has been a fiery leader of "Jayhawkers," those bellicose sons of the Middle Border whose ropes, pitchforks and rifles kept Kansas abolitionist because they did not want the agricultural competition of cheap slave labor. A noted boozer, tobacco-chewer and wencher, sly "Ace" is first seen confessing his sins to a camp-meeting audience...
...tramp steamer to whom she was delivering a telegram. Reaching Panama, she is filled with only one idea-the determination to get home again-and through her tiny, personal crisis, as she seeks help from one man after another in the Canal Zone, is gradually revealed the gargantuan plot of a munitions firm to start a war by blowing up the U. S. Navy as it passes through the Canal...
...ring has had two paramount worries: 1) Is Reichsführer Adolf Hitler going to name him as "Deputy" or Vice-Realmleader (TIME, Sept. 17) to step into Hitler's shoes in case of death? 2) Is Comrade Dimitroff, now safe in U. S. S. R., organizing a plot to assassinate him? Last week smart Dimitroff answered both questions in Moscow in his own inspired way. Said he: "I am not interested in killing Göring because eventually Hitler will...
...vigorous censorship was clamped on at Sofia, and served only to strengthen rumors of a plot against the Tsar similar to that which cost the life of King Alexander of Jugoslavia at Marseilles, France, this month...