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...since 1924 had the Reglamento of the arena, instigated by Primo de Rivera, been revised. Last week, rejoicing was general throughout Spain when the committee finished, King Alfonso signed and the Gaceta Oficial published verbatim the taurine code revised, a document longer (ten quarter newspaper pages) than the text of the London Naval Treaty. Rejoicing was great, for just as cockfighting was resumed after the fall of strict Dictator Primo, so it was seen that Spain's bull- killing will regain a touch of ferocious color which "humane" Primo forbade. Permitted once more are the banderillas de fuego...
...lively fights and no decrepit bulls, the latter must be at least four and no more than seven years old; must weigh at least 470 kilos (approx. 1128 lb.). They shall receive at least three punzadas (goadings), and more if not particularly brave or wild. Other parts of the code provide that: There shall be four horses for each bull, all horses to be at least 2.7 metres high...
Poland will soon adopt a new legal code upon which TIME will report, stating whether Communists will continue liable to the Death penalty after its enactment. At present the courts are somewhat lenient and the Death sentencing of Communists at Lemberg was an exception. According to despatches the accused denied that they were Communists, but the Lemberg Court held that their possession of much Communist literature established the presumption that they were Communists. Upon this presumption and its corollary that a Communist is a traitor they were sentenced to Death. Communist deputies are of course protected by their parliamentary immunity...
...Stoehr device, striker bars are so fixed to a piano's keys that when a key is touched a code impression is recorded on a motor-driven music-roll. Thus the most idle vagaries, nuclei for many a major opus, may be preserved. Added feature is a portable keyboard superimposed on the piano keyboard (baby grand or upright) which mechanically and instantaneously transposes music into any desired key. Composing and transposing devices may be used together. A great boon should "Music Writer" be to the cinema industry. Heretofore composition for synchronized cinema has been a labor of weeks. With...
...hurry-up session last week the present duly-elected State Legislature of Morelos rushed through a bill legalizing all acts of Provisional Governors in Morelos from 1917 to 1930, including of course the Puente Code. According to the original opinion handed down by the Supreme Court of Mexico this action renders Morelos divorces legal in Mexico at least...