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...summer to Russia after which he nearly died of gastric disturbances and a kidney infection. Statesman Herriot pointed out that hostilities between Japanese and Russians, if not between Japan and Russia, have in fact commenced. Thus M. Herriot cited the complaints of the Soviet manager of the Chinese Eastern Railway spanning Japan's puppet State of Manchukuo. The manager, Comrade Julius Rudy, had counted up to 280 armed attacks by "Manchukuans" on his Soviet railway guards before Manchukuo authorities clapped six Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern into jail at Harbin where they still languished last week. Since that...
...party that sent him first into politics, the stolid thick-necked peasants of the Lower Austrian Bauernbund, Chancellor Dollfuss got a popular demonstration to offset Nazi propaganda. By special trains 100,000 of them came up to Vienna, stomped under streaming banners eight abreast round the Ringstrasse. In the railway station the little Chancellor barked excitedly: "This shows how ridiculous is the allegation that the people are not behind the Government. . . . You are my plebiscite...
...yards. In a year Jesse was yard manager. In three years he was general manager of the whole concern, planning to extend the company further through Texas and Okla homa. It was then that he moved the scene of his operations south to Houston, a growing railway and shipping town connected with the Gulf by shallow Buffalo Bayou...
...uncrowned War Lord of what is now Manchukuo, had himself scores of wives, reveled in opium, drank hot tigers' blood in the belief that it kept his vitals active, played Japan's game for years and when he ceased to do so was dynamited in his private railway car (TIME, June...
ELIOT RATSKELLER...Smells of fresh paint, and rather high-priced, but there is always a merry, well-dressed late-night crowd, and it has that old railway poster atmosphere. Your credit is good there, and if you come around real late you can have the left overs that won't keep till the next night, gratis. Watch the big bartender with the Hitler moustache do his stuff...