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With the day just breaking, the "Dawn Cabinet," as Paris christened it, trooped from the Elysée Palace and Premier Laval snappily observed to the dog-tired Press: "I have formed a Government of action. I did my duty in forming a Cabinet and I hope the Nation and Parliament will do their duty in supporting...
...wearily trumped up another "explanation." And in Parliament up bobbed a Gömbös deputy who had decided he did not like Eckhardt's manner. The deputy, Ladislas Szalay, offered a choice of fists, pistols or light cavalry sabres at dawn. Eckhardt took sabres and the two men whacked at one another for half an hour, ten rounds, until both were, according to the seconds, "completely exhausted." Sweating and gasping, slightly scratched about the head and shoulders and completely unreconciled, the two went home...
...these political duels produced little gore last week, Hungarian connoisseurs of sabre work were edified by one duel of pure animal rage. Heavy cavalry sabres at dawn were wanted by Count Balint Szechenyi, kinsman of Hungary's Minister at London, Count Laszlo Szechenyi who is husband to Gladys Vanderbilt. Count Balint Szechenyi had heard something his wife's first husband, a Jewish businessman named Victor Stein, had said about her. Victor Stein was mad too. On the field of honor the two hurled themselves at one another three times. Stein severely battered the Count's head...
...Quiet as the Dawn...
...body, half-devoured by their landlord's hogs. When they wake the landlord there is a quarrel between him and the Negro, which is the excuse the landlord has been waiting for. While the Negro takes to the woods the landlord rounds up a posse. At dawn, directed by the sharecropper, they find their quarry, shoot him down from a tree. The sharecropper, his stomach full of two horrible deaths in one night, goes home to breakfast, but for once he cannot...