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...quite so peaceful. Nazi sympathizers strewed paper swastikas all over Vienna, hung a great banner marked DEATH TO DOLLFUSS near the Opera House. Up from Italy on motorcycles came a party of 170 Italian Fascists to help celebrate the Dollfuss festival. Nazis and those who still remembered the War threw rocks and scattered tacks in the roadway. The Italians' tires were punctured more than 200 times. One, irritated, shot a bystander. Germany. Nazis celebrated by staging at Berlin's vast Tempelhof Air Field one of the greatest mass meetings the world has ever seen. It was best described...
...Fascists brought in Daniell of Stock Exchange-stink bomb fame. At Peoples Junior College in Los Angeles a song sheet appeared on which were printed the college song, the Star Spangled Banner and a purple swastika. Both at Johns Hopkins and Amherst, where there were strikes, R.O.T.C. men threw firecrackers and rotten vegetables into the ranks of the demonstrators. At the former university, the R.O.T.C. turned the water hose on speakers, faculty as well as student...
...time's sake the President had his onetime close adviser Bernard Baruch to lunch and took him to the postponed opening game of the baseball season between Washington and Boston. President Roosevelt threw out the first ball and soon after was almost struck by a high foul which fell on the seat next to him. Secret Service men fell over themselves trying in vain to catch it. The President grinned at "Barney" Baruch: "Another foot nearer and there might have been a national catastrophe." Soon threatening clouds filled the sky. Said the President: "We'll stay until...
...Camden, N. J., Neighbor Kisselman, after a quarrel with Neighbor Cavalieri, threw up a 6-ft. $300 barbed-wire spite fence. In reply Neighbor Cavalieri hoisted a pink wooden pig on a pole to grimace down at Neighbor Kisselman. Neighbor Kisselman ranged along his spite fence two pigs, a toad, a wolf, two snakes, a wild bull, a skunk, a baboon; portraits of Neighbor Cavalieri...
Biddy Mrs. Hicks, summoned to the scene of the crime the next morning for the express purpose of cleaning up the glass, took one look at the huge hole in the window, asked one penetrating question: "Was the window open when he threw the revolver?"; offered one valuable suggestion: "You better shake out your shoes before you wear them again...