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...source of Broadcaster Hard's expose, Administrator Hopkins declared : "He gets all his stuff from Sam Jones, who's an expert at cooking up this sort of material. He used to work for the Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution and he put on that big campaign down at the Talmadge convention to smear...
...Home Secretary, Sir John Simon, strove to uphold British rights of freedom to demonstrate, but he thought it necessary to cancel all police leaves and send 10,000 Bobbies to keep order in East London. Too late to avert the riot, Commissioner of Metropolitan Police Sir Philip Game informed Sir Oswald that mobsters were getting out of hand and the 5,000 Fascists could not be allowed to march. In a closed car, the windshield of which was quickly smashed by a paving stone, the Fascist leader rushed to his lined-up Blackshirts, yelled "Sir Philip has banned the march...
...uniformed members of the Government's own Assault Guards. Though these assassins admittedly acted without President Azana's knowledge, their crime showed that the most violent Left terrorism was now operating in the shadow of the Government itself. In Right opinion, the Republic had ceased to uphold republican order or republican rights and the first broadside issued by forces of the Revolution said they were striving for a "Restoration" of the order and rights previously enjoyed by Spaniards...
...Eastern crews-Columbia, Cornell, Navy, Penn and Syracuse-Cornell, heaviest in the race, looked best, but the two Westerners were favorites. In their own regatta, at Seattle last April, Washington had beaten California by three lengths but that was at three miles. California had a precedent to uphold. Its crews were Poughkeepsie winners "and Olympic champions...
Last week Censor Wilkinson was shown the March of Time's eighth British edition. What chiefly caught his attention were the 651 feet which traced the course of His Majesty's Government's attempt to keep Italy out of Ethiopia and uphold the League of Nations as an instrument for international peace. Censor Wilkinson did not object to a shot of the British Home Fleet entering the Mediterranean, but he did object to shots of British troopships going to the same place and to the Voice of Time's announcement: "British troops follow the fleet...