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...picturesque Civil Guard marched glittering through the streets of Montevideo in uniforms dating from the War of Liberation from Spain (1810). Escorted by galloping lancers Dr. Gabriel Terra, heavyset, heavy-jowled President & Dictator, sped to open the Conference at 6 p. m. Alighting from their limousines in a sudden squall of wind and rain, delegates of 21 American nations clutched their silk hats and fled with flapping coattails up the marble steps of Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber. In the excitement the delegates...
...been a matter of some years since a Princeton football team has risen to such heights as the present one. And the Tiger's newfound athletic glory is made not less sweet by his sudden leap from the slough of 1930 and 1931. Princeton has a great team, and Princeton men are fully aware of it. A transcontinental trip is not required to prove it. --Daily Princetonian...
...administration is anxious to have the dollar depreciated as close to 50 cents as possible when measured in terms of gold, but there are many experts here who think that stabilization itself will produce a rebound from a 50-cent level to about 66 cents due to the sudden demand from abroad for dollars on the part of American owners of capital in Europe...
...friend to all the King's horses, "all the King's men and especially to all the King's battleships and airplanes is Lady Houston, reputedly George V's richest female subject. Without her sudden, impressive gift of ?100,000, the British Air Ministry could not have entered and won the final Schneider Trophy Races (TIME, Sept. 14, 1931). Last week irrepressible Dame ("Fanny") Lucy was at it again on her yacht, The Liberty once owned by not-quite-so-rich and eccentric Joseph Pulitzer. From The Liberty, on which Lady Houston lives with steam constantly...
...King is impossible!" Resigning also as Leader of the National Peasant Party, M. Vaida-Voevod cried: "I made a great mistake in trying to cooperate with His Majesty and I fear that my policy has proved disastrous for our Party. I assume full responsibility." The disaster consisted in the sudden resurgence of the Bratianu National Liberal Party, impelled by secretive, intriguing, ruthless Deputy Constantine ("Dino") Bratianu, brother of Vintila and Ion. Dino has been organizing among his friends, the great semifeudal landlords and industrialists of Rumania, a mass protest by their retainers against the National Peasant Party Government. Last week...