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...sporting sons, Harold Stirling and William Kissam II, were in the southern U. S., but her daughter Consuelo, one-time pawn of her most amazing social gambit, was there. Outside in the Rue Monsieur the dove-colored Paris dawn was brightening. The old lady, appearing to suffer no pain, lay comatose. But on her square, wide-mouthed face there was a look of concentration, as though, desperately pressed for time, she must reconsider, revalue the countless acts and decisions of her extraordinary lifetime. Suddenly, at 6:50 a. m., her features relaxed...
...Socialist Blum, "but I am unable to vote with my friends!" In an incoherent scramble all sorts of Deputies, eager to curry favor with civil service constituents, followed the Socialist bolt. The Paul-Boncour Cabinet fell at 6 a. m. by a vote of 193 to 390, "guillotined at dawn" like the last (Herriot) Cabinet (TIME, Dec. 26). The Ministers promptly delivered their resignations at the Elyseé Palace to President Lebrun...
...examinations for the Foreign Office and passed at the head of the list, much to his surprise. In 1912 he was sent to Moscow as British vice-consul. He liked and got on well with Russia, Russian and Russians, had a high old time in Moscow, saw many a dawn break over the Kremlin. When he married an Australian girl he turned over a new leaf-for a while. Then rumors of his goings-on with a Russian Jewess reached his Ambassador, who spoke to him sorrowfully, extracted a pledge of good behavior. Three weeks later, the pledge broken, Lockhart...
With a cargo of flowers, fruits, films, photos, Pilot "Buddy" Jones whipped a silvery Lockheed of Air Express Corp. off the runway of United Airport, Los Angeles, one afternoon last week to touch wheels at Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. at dawn. Time: 14 hr.-a transcontinental record for commercial planes. Scheduled time...
...grab money out of my pocket and transfer it to your pocket. . . . Riots are coming. . . . This is the dawn of a new day for the farmer. . . . Peanuts- that great commodity which means so much to 18 States! . . . Calvin Coolidge would have despised this dole to the farmer. . . . We're heading straight for the rocks now. . . . There isn't enough rice grown in this country to supply a first class wedding. . . . The lamp of experience is before us. . . . God help the farmer! . . . Nobody here knows what this bill's all about. . . . It's a gigantic bonus...