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...Revolutions? What did worry Washington last week, was the fact that Argentina's is the third and biggest South American revolution since early summer. Bolivia popped first (TIME, July 7), then Peru (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), while earlier in the year threatened revolutions forced a peaceful but sudden change of presidents in the Dominican Republic (TIME, March 10) and later Haiti (TIME, March...
President Hoover hoped for three things to maintain the lower tax rate: 1) a sudden increase in customs receipts; 2) $75,000,000 economies in his departments; 3) cash instead of security payments by foreign debtor nations to be applied to current expenditures...
Herrick, a cattleman and farmer in Oklahoma's "Cherokee strip," was elected to Congress in 1920 by the sudden death of his chief opponent and that year's Republican landslide. In 1922 he campaigned vainly for re-election with a speech entitled: "Two Years in Congress, or Through Hell and Back...
Later the R-100 poked into a squall. Officers and men clutched for support. Fuel slopped out of tanks. Worse, the hydrogen balloonets were in danger of bursting because of the sudden pressure release. The fabric of the starboard fin let go, as the port had done. After a minute of severe tossing the R-100 was again master, plowing ahead on an even keel. The laconic log-entry by Squadron Leader R. S. Booth, in command: "Ship's height varied rapidly between...
...Montreal a sudden, violent electric storm halted telegraph and telephone service election night and drenched bulletin board watchers. As they rushed for home they knew that Quebec, normally Liberal, had given Conservatives at least 16 seats, that Conservatives had ten and Liberals one of New Brunswick's eleven seats, that Prince Edward Island voted three Conservatives and one Liberal into office. It appeared certain that Mr. Bennett's Conservatives had given him a majority of Parliament's 245 seats. Mr. King had perhaps 100. The minor parties had negligible counts. The Liberal-Progressives seemingly had broken...