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Young Hero Joachim Burthe, scion of an upper-crust family poverty-stricken in Republican Germany, yearns to do something to save his suffering post-War world. Member of a revolutionary society, he connives at plots to assassinate the Minister to whom Germany's great depression is attributed. When the plots fail Joachim determines to commit the murder himself...
...Pittsburgh's Union Trust and Chicago's Continental Illinois announced last May that the late Matchmaker Ivar Kreuger had turned up with it for collateral. They threatened to sell the 3,500 red, crinkly 100-share certificates to reimburse themselves for a $3,800,000 past due loan to stricken International Match. But the numerous protective committees and Irving Trust, trustee for International, clamored loudly for return of the shares, legally obstructed their sale (TIME, June 18). Last week they agreed to the sale if the proceeds were impounded for further wrangling. At the upset price...
...this point Mr. Eslick was stricken and fell dead and was carried from the chamber by his colleagues...
...well, picked up his lifeless body, carried it to the lobby. House Physician Dr. George Calver worked vainly over it. Mrs. Eslick hurried down from the gallery where she had been listening to her husband's speech. Members of the Bonus Expeditionary Force gaped from the gallery in awe-stricken silence. The House adjourned after the first death on its floor in 98 years...
Tales of treasure-hunting, of Tomacito, a New Mexican Thumbling, of drunken burros, spice the book. More sombre are the tales of disappearing Amerindian tribes and customs, but they are stoically told. The Zia Indians, in their decay, became so poverty-stricken, so skinny, that other Indians called them the "hungry ones." The "hungry ones" called back: "Fat Indians dance slowly...