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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...able to elect a sizeable majority of his supporters next November. Aperiodically Dictator Pilsudski calls in the newspaper reporters and pours out a string of abuse on the Sejm (Lower Chamber), its members and the present Polish constitution. The worst expletive newshawks have felt free to print to date has been the famed "The Sejm is a prostitute!" (TIME, July 9, 1928 et seq.). Last week the Dictator enlarged a little on his usual theme of excoriation. Said he of the constitution: "It is like a bad stew; no stomach is able to digest it." And then: "It exudes such...
...carrier Saratoga was launched, the old New York became the Rochester. Remodeled in 1927, she was robbed of one of her funnels. She is now flagship of the special service squadron in the Caribbean, conveyor of U. S. Marines to Haiti and Nicaragua, but she is far out of date, destined soon to be scrapped. She will die with her head up. Last week the Navy Department announced that the Rochester's seamen, with the Rochester's equipment, had won the Battle Efficiency Pennant-for excellence in gunnery, engineering and communications- most coveted ship honor, during the last...
...check drawn to M. Green, endorsed to Zuta, returned by the bank marked "payment stopped," and by other vouchers. Said the Judge: "I was in financial difficulties and I had to kite some checks. Green would get me a check and I would write one of my own . . . and date it a month ahead and give it to Green. I didn't pay any attention to the names on the checks." ¶ Chief of Police William 0. Freeman of Evanston, by a letter on official stationery, asking for "four C's" ($400). Chief Freeman told investigators...
...Castle is a very good place to have a baby. To a superstitious Briton?and there are millions of them?Glamis Castle is a very bad place. Glamis (pronounced Glahms) was old before Macbeth did murder sleep and Duncan. The central keep and two detached towers on the lawn date from at least the 10th Century. Glamis boasts all the romantic appurtenances of a novel by Horace Walpole. It has a secret staircase, a "Priest's hole" where Papists were hidden during the Commonwealth, the room where Macbeth murdered Duncan, another room known as the Hangman's Room because...
...coronation of Carol, buck-toothed King of Rumania, was suddenly and definitely postponed last week from Oct. 15 to an indefinite date in the spring of 1931. Every Rumanian knew the reason. Patient, hazel-eyed Queen Helen, whose presence at the coronation is vital if Carol is to retain any of his present popularity in Rumania, suddenly decided that reconciliation with the man who deserted her five years ago to elope to France with a red-headed Jewess was more than she could stomach. She fled to Mamaia with her son Prince Mihai for a vacation in the clean fresh...