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...swooping visit to Rome-Dictator Mussolini being probably the only person who might be able to win Dictator Hitler over to the British plan. Traveling on a special Italian train, the British party were startled near Arquata Scrivia when the electric engine got tangled up in the overhead wires, tore down 500 yards of them. Rushing to the rescue, an Italian steam locomotive tugged the MacDonald train to Genoa where Air Minister General Italo Balbo waited at the controls of a big trimotored Italian seaplane. Flanked by nine escort planes, they darted toward Ostia (the seaplane port of Rome...
Brawn triumphed when 30 bulge-muscled undergraduates burst into the Oxford Union and tore out of its minute book a resolution adopted 275 to 153: Under no circumstances will we fight for King and Country (TIME...
...Observatory said: "I believe that this earthquake was more violent at its epicentre than that of 1923," which laid the greater part of Tokyo in ruins. Four relief planes, soaring to the scene of disaster, were beaten back by the blizzard, had to return to Tokyo. Ten Japanese destroyers tore through choppy seas, landed doctors, medical supplies and food at ports along the stricken coast where over 100 small towns & cities lay in sodden ruins...
...Zangara, 33, native of Calabria, Italy, onetime bricklayer in New Jersey and last week a blurry-minded transient in Miami, thought to himself: "My stomach, it hurts. I hate all Presidents. I kill them." He had pondered the possibility of killing President Hoover until he read, tore out and stuffed in his pocket a newspaper clipping that said President-elect Roosevelt would visit Miami in two days. With the .32-calibre revolver, which he got from the pawnshop without need of permit or self-identification, he was a fully equipped assassin...
...things worse. The boy, thoroughly frightened, snatched a revolver from the till and fired wildly over the crowd's heads. First shot sprang a delicate golden fountain from the side of a whiskey barrel and reversed the riot. The barflies rolled on the floor with gaping mouths and tore at each other's clothes. Somebody upset the lamp and started a fire just as the proprietor walked in the door...