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With Labor in a pettish temper, the President sped Secretary Perkins off to San Francisco to address the convention. Her audience was friendly but far from enthusiastic when she keynoted: "We cannot expect the Roosevelt Administration or any other Administration to give us the millennium on a silver platter...
...Milan last week, with Achilles ("Pantherman") Starace, No. 2 Fascist and Party Secretary, in his retinue, sped Head-of-the-State Benito Mussolini to build up the morale of that industrial region where bitter unemployment persists. En route Il Duce cajoled Italian peasants at their harvesting, speaking from a truck, a threshing machine, a motorcar, a platform built like the prow of a ship, and from a Hitler-taunting replica of the ox-drawn battle carts with which the Lombard League in the 12th Century repulsed Teutonic Frederick Barbarossa...
...august party sped from Milan to Cremona, Pantherman Starace told young men who prayed for jobs: ''Remember that Fascism promises you neither honors nor jobs nor profits, but only duty and combat...
Glowing with loving-kindness Il Duce sped to Gardone Riviera where at the gate of his elaborate villa, egg-headed, effete Hero-Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio awaited, no longer sulky. Poet and Premier hugged each other, and made a gracious courtesy of getting through the gate. Insisted the Poet: "You first. Duce. I am in my own house. It is I who give orders here." Whereupon, 21 guns boomed a salute from the prow of the warship which Poet d'Annunzio had mounted on a cliff. Toward the house the pair moved, the host exclaiming: "I have so much...
Like madmen a guard of cavalry whirled, charged on the screaming crowd. The assassin fell beneath shots and swords. Hit by a stray bullet, General Dimitriejevitch of Jugoslavia fell mortally wounded. King Alexander lurched half out of his automobile as the aides flung open the door. Horns shrieking, they sped him to the prefecture. There, while surgeons worked desperately over his four wounds, Alexander of Jugoslavia died...