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...Harper's for last August. A favorite weapon is the pistol with Maxim silencer. After its slight "phht" the secret agent, having accomplished a murder which his Government highly approves and considers "vital to the safety of the Fatherland," hails a passing taxi, speeds to the nearest convenient railway station, is usually over the frontier of the country in which his pistol went "phht" before the killing is discovered...
...Russia in 1929 but still the rival in Communist hearts of Joseph Stalin. According to the State Public Prosecutor's charges and the confessions of all 17 prisoners, they had conspired with Exile Trotsky, who is now in Mexico (TIME, Jan. 25), not only to accomplish 3,500 railway wrecks in Russia in two years, but also in connivance with Japanese and German spies to cede to these countries, after a war which would unseat Dictator Stalin, vast areas of Siberia and the Ukraine...
From one rich U. S. family to another last week passed working control of the Virginian Railway, the 600-mi. model coal road built by the late Standard Oilman Henry Huttleston Rogers in the days of Roosevelt I (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). In Manhattan, Adrian Hoffman Larkin, Virginian Board Chairman and trustee of the Rogers estate, laconically announced that 75% of the Virginian's common stock had been sold to interests identified with Andrew William Mellon. The consideration, said Mr. Larkin, was in excess of $31,000,000. Actual purchaser was a group headed by Koppers Co., Eastern...
Last week the President of Mexico General Lazaro Cardenas, sent a luxurious special railway car, El Hidalgo ("The Nobleman"), to fetch Comrade Trotsky from the seacoast to the 7,000-ft. high plateau on which stands Mexico City, Lest anyone do the Great Exile a mischief El Hidalgo stopped some miles outside the capital and Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky, with six Mexican detectives permanently assigned to them, alighted to finish their journey by motor car.* This whisked them to the spacious suburban residence of fat and smoldering Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, an ardent Trotskyist, friend of President Cardenas, and casher...
...Igls near Innsbruck the best hotel had its bridal suite decked with blooms; the chef, with his eye on the railway timetable, had a sumptuous dinner under way; the town councilmen were in their frock coats; the town band had practiced up the Dutch national anthem...