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...tired because he had come from a program of wrestling bouts in New York's Yankee Stadium where his mighty voice had roared names, weights, decisions, to the crowd. He had got soaked when showers fell during the matches. He sank into a troubled sleep. Before daylight he woke, blinked into the darkness, tried to turn over, made the terrifying discovery that he could not move so much as a finger...
German workmen woke from the heady excitement of their first Nazi May Day last week (TIME, May 8) to find their trade unions snatched from under them. Catholic unions announced complete allegiance and subservience to the Hitlerites and were accepted as good converts. Socialist unions with a total membership of over 4,000,000 men were not given the chance. Though the Socialist union published a formal statement several days earlier offering full co-operation with the Government, important young Storm Troopers raided their headquarters throughout the Reich and marched 50 union leaders off to jail. Up popped Dr. Robert...
...squawk from the government of Manchukuo. While thousands of Soviet troops have moved quietly into line along the Manchukuan border, railway officials at the Russian end of the Chinese Eastern Railway have been quietly detaining rolling stock of the C. E. R., rerouting them over Russian tracks. Manchukuo officials woke to the fact last week that the Soviet had "borrowed" 3,200 freight cars, 190 passenger cars, 83 locomotives. The system was paralyzed, for the C. E. R. is built on Russian broad gauge, all other Manchurian rolling stock is built to U. S. standard gauge...
...gentle with her, kissed her a few times, then went away. Sally was heartbroken, tried taking a hot bath in her nightgown and sitting beside an open window, hoping to get pneumonia and die. She did not die, but a truck hit her one day and when she woke up she wanted to live. . . . Years later she met Tom in a speakeasy. "Of course I remember you. Do you know my husband...
...strong drink and loose women figure. On the night of Oct. 30, according to last week's disclosures, no Tokyo police put on bullet-proof vests and stealthily surrounded an inn at Atami in which eleven Communist leaders were asleep. Ten were seized as they slumbered. The eleventh woke up, shot four policemen, wounded them sorely...