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...detachment of young Army officers appeared suddenly on the steps of the Moneda Palace, headquarters of the Junto* Government which seized power last September and drove President Alessandri from the country TIME, Sept. 22), entered unhidden. Shortly afterward the Junto of elderly .military men resigned. A Junto of young military men was formed. There was no noise, no ungentlemanly scuffles...
...yesterday's game with the schoolboy sextet the 1928 stickmen overcame their opponent's lead twice to tie the score, but were unable to put over a winning goal. Milton got off to a two goal lead in the first period when Cunningham and Putnam drove the puck into...
Ambassador Kellogg looked nonplussed and, apparently fearing last-minute complications, drove his pen over the paper in front of him. U. S. Ambassador to France, Myron T. Herrick and Colonel James A. Logan, hitherto U. S. unofficial observer with the Reparations Commission, signed under Mr. Kellogg's name in the space reserved for the U. S. Representatives of Brazil, Greece, Portugal, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia and Czechoslovakia similarly exhibited specimens of their caligraphy. The agreement relating to the division of the proceeds of the Experts' Plan (TIME, Jan. 19) was in effect, each of the signatories having been vested...
...Nation, is told the story of a South African Negro girl who left her employment suddenly and departed to her kraal (hut). Her employer, a farmer, drove to the kraal, took the girl back to his farm and there flogged her. But this was not enough. He tied her up by the neck to a beam in a rat-infested barn. An hour later, the girl was found dead: the tips of her fingers had been gnawed off by the rats...
...STREET OF THE EYE-Gerald Bullet-Boni Liveright ($2.00). Simmering, sizzling, boiling, gurgling, spitting, the fear of God bubbled like Hell's lava in the head of Bellingham; it drove him out of bed and across the arid plains of Hell under a sky monotonously grey except where the sun, a bloody red, like a huge socket from which the eye had been torn, stared sightlessly at him. In this story, the first and most powerful in the book, Mr. Gerald Bullet adeptly spins out mystification until it becomes mysticism. The Enchanted Moment tells how a certain gnome made...