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...seized power last Fall, *ousted the politicians and set up a military directorate to rule Spain with the mailed fist (TIME, Sept. 24), last week requested King Alfonso to sign a decree demilitarizing the Directorate, modifying the dictatorial powers of himself, making the Ministers once more responsible to the Crown...
Cleveland?the glorious city of Cleveland?tore for a brief moment from Washington the crown as the chief political city of the U. S. The recital of prominent Republicans who went thither for the Convention is too long for repetition, but the recital of those who did not go is worth attending...
...more potent while the giant Senegambian "appeared to be tiring from his own efforts." Counting those who graced telephone and telegraph poles that over looked the arena, 20,000 persons saw the encounter. Madden absorbed ter rific punishment at close quarters - he was soundly whacked on eye, jaw, crown, ribs and solar plexus. But he "stuck" - to the end. Loud and long were the cheers for both. Dundee vs. Vicentini. Johnny Dundee (ancient Italian) patted Luis Vicentini (Chilean, lightweight champion of South America) with a choice assortment of "educated" slaps in a twelve-round match at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan...
...idealist, and at romanticism and idealism the French have long been past masters. M. Maurois has made the past live with words succinct and decisive, sentences deep with comprehension, paragraphs full of irony and delight, chapters seething with critical observations; in all, a book that may well deserve to crown the host of Shelleyana...
...Home Affairs Rentaro Mizuno enjoined the Premier to hold on to office, it was not thought that the Premier would attempt it nor that Elder Statesman Saionji would recommend it. It was stated, however, that the Premier would remain in office until June 4, when the State celebration of Crown Prince Hirohito's wedding* (TIME, April 7) will have been held. Upon this date the Diet assembles and Kiyoura Government is expected to resign. The next Premier is likely to be Viscount Takaaki Kato†, four times Foreign Minister (1900-01, 1906, 1913, 1914-15), former Japanese Ambassador...