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...wipe out these Communists." Pittsburghers gloomily shook their heads. A born windmill tilter, William McNair punctuated 30 unprosperous years at the bar with a monotonous series of espousals of lost causes. A Bryan stumpster, he ran for everything unsuccessfully until Pittsburgh, as normally Republican as Mecca is Mohammedan, threw out its corrupt and long-lived G. O. P. machine last autumn (TIME, Nov. 20, 1933). Lawyer McNair happened to be the Demo cratic candidate. Pittsburgh Democrats say of their Mayor: "We voted for a machinegun but got a phonograph record...
...Hitler's and led him toward a waiting motorboat, speaking German with fair fluency to a guest who speaks nothing else. As a disciple should. Chancellor Hitler drew back to let the world's No. i Fascist enter the launch first, but II Capo del Governo again threw his arm around Guest Hitler's shoulders, urged him forward in Italian: "Prego!" ("I beg you!"). With a dozen police motorboats roaring ahead to chase away jay-rowing gondolas, the official launch sped for Venice between two squadrons of Italian war boats which thundered salutes. -"Get into your rooms...
...Government is determined that no person or group of persons shall usurp the functions of the State," declared Sir John, referring to the Mosley blackshirts who seized hecklers at Olympia with policemanly vigor and threw them outside to be arrested by Sir John's Bobbies. Later he said: "The Government has decided that alterations in the law shall be made to give uniformed policemen the right to attend any meeting at which they have reason to anticipate disorder...
...Minister of War. With a pack of Deputies who would stop at nothing to back him up. Genera! Kondylis strutted into the hall and Zing!-a chair hurtled clear across the Chamber at Alexander Papanastasiou, leader of the Opposition. M. Papanastasiou, an artful dodger, was not hurt until he threw the chair back at the Government with such violence that he dislocated his right shoulder. Grimacing with pain, he left the Chamber and announced that the entire Opposition would stay out on a protest strike against General Kondylis' ambition to buy 600 million drachmas worth of munitions...
...mysterious stirrings in the Bradford house. Arlene turns up dead in the garage. The newshawk's loyalties waver between his paper and Arlene's half-sister (Margaret Lindsay) whom he loves. A free-for-all chase leads to more mystery. Who sent the spurious telegram? Who threw Jake Bello into the bay? What about the sinister butler, the yacht Nowishn and Arthur Burchard to whom Arlene willed her money...