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...Madison, Wis., a hurriedly called caucus of State Democratic leaders chose State Senator Harry Bolens of Port Washington, Wis. to be their candidate for Governor. Reason: their primary-chosen nominee, Robert K. Henry, withdrew last fortnight hoping to help his Republican rival beat Progressive Governor Philip La Follette, who has been elected twice in three-cornered races...
...Having failed to win a coalition backing against Wisconsin's Progressive Governor Philip La Follette (TIME, Oct. 3), Robert K. Henry withdrew as the Democratic nominee to clear the way for Julius P. Heil, the Republican nominee...
...soldiers, as they withdrew, gave bystanders dark scowls and muttered oaths, the Czech officers avoided meeting civilian eyes, discharged their bitter duty with compressed lips. Nazi folk of the Sudeten town of Cesky Krumlov were the first Germans to dishonor themselves by opening dastardly fire upon the retreating Czech soldiers' backs. These Sudetens were also the first to smash windows and pillage shops and homes owned by Czechs, Jews and non-Nazi Sudetens such as Communists, Socialists and Social Democrats. Such outrages were not typical but exceptional, according to latest dispatches. The German army entered those parts of Czechoslovakia...
...Dollar Lines, continued Admiral Land, had not been suffering from a lack of business. From 1930 through 1937 it had gross revenues of more than $13.000,000 a year. But in the years from 1923 through June 1934, R. Stanley Dollar withdrew $2,526,501.22 as salary, J. Harold Dollar $1,081,693.62, H. L.Lorber $737,926.21 and Banker Herbert Fleishhacker $377,756.85. When R. Stanley Dollar bought five ships from the Government he took $281,225 as 5% commission...
...most influential party in France and the only Jew ever to become its Premier. "War has probably been averted," wrote Editor Blum in Le Populaire, "but I feel myself divided between cowardly relief and my sense of shame." Only 36 hours later Leon Blum blazed up and withdrew his Socialist Party's support from the demands which French Premier Edouard Daladier and British Prime Minister Chamberlain had made upon Prague. Although these demands had just been ''unanimously approved" by the whole French Cabinet, three of its members suddenly changed their minds and wrote out their resignations, were...