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...power will see the bitter difficulties of government." General Manuel Maria Ponce took com mand of the revolutionary junta. President Leguia sent an intimate, con soling message to his three daughters dis mayed at Chosica, a resort 30 miles from Lima. His two sons and he entered a swift motor car, sped to Callao, boarded Peru's other cruiser, Almirante Gran, sailed for Panama, where he had prudently arranged passage for Europe on a commercial boat...
Died. William E. Swift, 35, son of Louis Franklin Swift, Chicago meat- packer; by his own hand with a revolver in Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles's Park Avenue sanitarium for rich neurasthenics, dope-fiends and alcoholics (TIME, June 9), on the same floor where Actress Jeanne Eagels died in convulsions (TIME, Oct. 14). He had been under Dr. Cowles's care for eight months. Some hours before the suicide Swift's nurse saw the revolver strapped to his arm, told Dr. Cowles. Dr. Cowles instructed the weapon be removed when Swift fell asleep. Dr. Charles Norris...
...Among them: Robert Julius Thorne, one-time president of Montgomery Ward & Co.; Charles F. Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; Albert Blake Dick Jr. (mimeographs); President DeForest Hulburd of Elgin National Watch Co.; Clayton Mark (steel); Cyrus Hall McCormick (harvesters) ; President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & Northwestern Ry.; Louis Franklin Swift (packer...
...surprising series in many ways ?one that made it hard for the yachtsmen peering through glasses from the committee boat to tell which contender they liked best. In the windward and leeward tests, Enterprise was at its best in a light breeze, swift into the wind but slow off it. In calm weather on the third day of racing she beat Whirlwind nicely, but her victory over Yankee in the fourth race did not mean much as Yankee's jib ripped open on the second leg. The men on the committee boat did not see the jib tear...
...Francisco. The Summer Symphony Association fortnight ago began its fifth season of ten concerts, not in the open, but in the newly decorated Civic Auditorium. On the dais, baton striking swift designs in the air, was Conductor Bernardino Molinari. Boldly, brilliantly. he led his musicians through the intricacies of the Don Giovanni overture, great Beethoven's great Eroica, Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the prelude to Die Meistersinger...