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...courteous French way of easing a man to the guillotine is to set excellent meals before him for several days previous, offer him brandy & cigarets at dawn and finally for the ornate Garde Républicaine to salute the condemned as he walks from the police van to death. All these amenities were offered last week to Paul Gorgulov. Russian slayer of the President of the Republic, Paul Doumer (TIME...
...that we object to real poetry but Governor Thatcher's poetry is objectionable from every point of view. Something should be done by those in authority." Governor Thatcher's critics at the Tivoli Hotel parodied as follows: Crow, cocks, crow, from sunset until dawn; Yelp, dogs, yelp, in torture unto me; Moo, cows, moo; Croak, frogs, croak; Make life a hell ; 'tis all we ask of thee. Nominee Thatcher was first elected to the House ten years ago. In Georgia, Charles Robert Crisp, Congressman famed for his courageous fight for the sales-tax (TIME...
First Race. To be as sure as they could of smooth water on the seven-mile oval course in Lake St. Clair, Mich., the committee named an unprecedented hour -6:30 a. m.-for the start. Rain that began before dawn caused a half-hour postponement. Thousands of boats had gathered in the dark, were anchored around the course. Along Grosse Point's Lake Shore Drive waited 200,000 spectators. At 6:55 a. m. when the five-minute gun sounded an inshore breeze was kicking up whitecaps-hard as riffles of concrete to a boat traveling more than...
...duties as Japanese Commander-in-Chief and special ambassador to Manchoukuo, Chinese guerrillas staged a desperate anti-Japanese raid. Machine guns and tanks banged away all night. The raiders succeeded in setting fire to the great Mukden arsenal three times and destroyed several planes at the airport. With the dawn they vanished. Japanese bombers zoomed off in pursuit...
...free-for-all for the $15,000 Bendix Trophy, Los Angeles to Cleveland. For that race, as for the Thompson and Aerol Trophy races at the end of the meet, designers had been working for a year, building fat little craft with stubby low wings. Into the California dawn roared five such craft: Clair Vance's Flying Wing, Jimmy Wedell, Jimmy Haizlip and Roscoe Turner in Wedell-Williams Speedsters, Lee Gehlbach in a stubby "Gee-Bee" (Granville Bros.). Over the Mojave Desert Vance had to drop out his cockpit awash with gasoline from a leaking tank...