Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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...
Last week's inquest into the revolver suicide of rich young William E. Swift of Chicago at Dr. Edward Spencer Cowles' expensive Manhattan sanitarium (TIME, Aug. 25) gave Dr. Cowles opportunity to answer nasty rumors about his professional conduct, particularly about his administration of narcotics to patients...
After the interrogation had proceeded a while and Dr. Cowles had said that Swift had habitually used large quantities of bromo seltzer and that at the sanitarium he had received only chloral hydrate as a nerve sedative, Mr. Ullman snapped at Dr. Cowles: "You've had experiences of this kind [i. e. suicides] before, haven...
...Cowles grew angry: "I want to know if you are trying to get information or to hurt my reputation." No reply. Dr. Cowles, quieter, then declared that the Swift suicide was the first on his premises...
Equivocal was Examiner Norris' statement at the end of his investigation: "I think we've got to believe the story that the [Swift] wound was self-inflicted. From the evidence, what else can we do? It would be a long, hard road if we were to assume otherwise...