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...wife took turns walking up and down the floor with a sick baby. They heard automobiles stop in front of the house. Mr. Wilson got down his gun. Eight masked men came into the bedroom where the baby was wailing and Mr. Wilson was standing in the dark. They threw flashlight beams into his face and fired twice, killing...
...week, due to the higher cost of francs, U. S. importers canceled large orders for French laces. Steel importers canceled so many orders that the Cartel d'Acier (French Steel Trust) cut production scales to 2,000 tons monthly from 10,000 tons. Similar curtailments in other lines threw some 30,000 Frenchmen out of work during the past month...
Architects Collens and Pelton went from Paris to Barcelona in a motor car last summer to get ideas for the new church. They studied how the Gothic architects threw stone into the sky like lace. It took them 21 days. At Le Mans, Carcassonne, Burgos, Leon, Valencia, Salamanca, Segovia and Toledo, they admired the Cathedrals, but they liked Chartres best...
...facts about Germany's "secret army" have, however, been rather thoroughly aired at a series of military trials. War Minister Gessler has been shown to have no great secret resources at his disposal; but to have used what he had for reactionary ends. This antagonized the Socialists, who threw their vote against the Cabinet last week. The Nationalists, disgruntled at Herr Gessler's half-hearted militarism, voted with their enemies the Socialists to oust the Marx Cabinet. This temporary "union of enemies," which flung the cabinet out 249 to 171, was, of course, partly due to the long...
...prison. Straight over the island sweeps the grey arch of Queensborough Bridge and across the bridge all day pass elevated trains, funeral carriages and people on foot. It is easy, standing on the bridge, to drop something down onto the island. Last week a man on the bridge threw away a tin tobacco...