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...Peoria, Ill., Fireman Joe Turner was on the second floor of the firehouse when he heard the alarm. He leaped for the pole, started sliding, ignited matches in his breast pocket, burned his chest, was prompted to let go. The drop broke both legs. It was a false alarm...
...oldtime Chamber of Deputies, an elected National Assembly met last week; and instead of a Senate, a Corporative Council appointed by Carmona who is very much a Dictator. With this blend of Fascism and Democracy, the spry, spare general, who has Portugal's comparatively huge army in his pocket, hopes to cure Portugal gradually of its nervous habit of periodic revolution-18 since...
...taken it to Louisiana's Governor Allen. Lead Belly was released from prison on Aug. 1. Month later when Mr. Lomax was sitting in a Texas hotel he felt a tap on his shoulder. It was Lead Belly, saying: "Boss, here I is." His knife bulged in his pocket. In his hand was a rickety green-painted guitar held together by string...
Defense, Shortly after Hauptmann's arrest in The Bronx with $20 of the Lind bergh ransom money in his pocket, Anna Hauptmann fell into the hands of one Harry Whitney, who has since described himself as the Hauptmanns' "business manager." At first Hauptmann refused to have any lawyer, discarding several of his wife's selection. By the end of his first week's imprisonment, however, he had agreed to retain James M. Fawcett of Brooklyn. It was Lawyer Fawcett who unsuccessfully fought Governor Lehman's extradition warrant before The Bronx County Supreme Court...
...revised copy signed by President Roosevelt though included in printed copies circulated by the Petroleum Administration (TIME, Oct. 22). The oil companies' attorney last week assured the Supreme Court that the only true copy of the oil code he had ever seen was "in the hip pocket of an agent sent down to Texas from Washington...