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Three Things Happened: 1) The National Assembly rammed into the Constitution by a vote of 178 to 59 Article XXIV expelling the Jesuits and barring education under Catholic auspices;* 2) President Alcala Zamora resigned in protest and 50 pious Basque and Navarra Deputies marched out of the National Assembly shouting "Long live Christ the King!"; 3) Parliamentary leaders gathered jabbering in the lobby, decided that War Minister Azana ought to be President, told Speaker Julian ("Bell Smasher") Besteiro of their decision...
...protest against the so-called tyranny, the students stormed the meeting of the School Board. It was not so much the actual payment that was irksome, it was the principle of the thing. The blood of the northern Indian runs hot and strong, for he is willing to throw himself upon the iron hand of politics. But this efforts will be as impotent as any attempt that Harvard could make to interfere in the Cambridge elections...
...week "to give firm support to the Prime Minister as head of the National Government and for the purpose of fighting in a general election." Major Gwilym Lloyd George, M. P. (loyal son) promptly resigned his minor post in the Government (Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade) in protest. Miss Megan Lloyd George M. P. (loyal daughter) began her campaign for re-election with this shrill cry: "I shall fight on as a Liberal?under the same leader?Lloyd George!" Invalid Lloyd George himself called Labor Leader Henderson to his bedside at Churt. They talked for an hour, presumably...
...Grove struck out but Derringer walked Bishop, filling the bases. When the count against Philadelphia's Centrefielder George ("Mule") Haas was three balls and two strikes, Derringer delivered a pitch that crossed the plate close to Haas's knees. Umpire Richard Nallin called it a ball. After a long protest, in which Pitcher Derringer later declared Umpire Nallin had admitted making a mistake, the game was resumed. Cochrane singled, scoring one run, and Pitcher Derringer then walked Simmons, forcing in another. He was replaced by Sylvester Johnson. In the seventh inning, Leftfielder Hafey of St. Louis dropped a fly, Philadelphia...
...institutions are entering the tournaments under protest, stating that it is over-commercialization of football, but they agree that the present crisis calls for the making of an exception. The entire plan is an outgrowth of the call issued yesterday by Owen D. Young, Chairman of the President's Committee on the Mobilization of Relief Resources, to all the colleges of the country asking them to play at least one game for charity. At a meeting in New York last Sunday the colleges involved agreed to the plan now adopted...