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...Yugoslavian version the prodigal's mother and sister did the murder, the mother hanged herself, the sister threw herself into a well. The A. P. dispatch, however, added one new bit of journalistic invention: "The 10,000 dinars will pay for a triple funeral...
...Senator Guffey again showed what a power he was in the chamber at the other end of the Capitol from the one in which he officially functions. At the Democratic caucus to pick a leader to succeed Speaker Byrns, eight candidates were in the field. But when Boss Guffey threw his 23 Pennsylvania votes to Alabama's Bankhead, it was all over on the second ballot. As a sop to the North and Tammany, the Democrats put New York City's Representative John J. O'Connor into the chairmanship of potent Rules Committee. Brother of Basil...
Riding the scorpion of Cuban politics with a charmed life. President Carlos Mendieta last week threw himself to the floor of his automobile as a bomb exploded beside the road. To such unreasoning attacks Mendieta has a stock reply and he made it again last week: "I am ready to resign as soon as Cuba has selected a government to succeed this provisional one over which I preside." Put into office a year ago. Mendieta has scheduled elections for March...
...dragged onto the field to be greeted by a Father New Orleans in cavalier's costume. Neatest play of an exciting, well-played contest came in the second quarter when Tulane's Quarterback Mc-Daniel caught a Temple kickoff, ran to the right to draw tacklers, then threw a lateral pass to his teammate Monk Simons who scampered 75 yd. for a touchdown. Two more Tulane touchdowns in the last half outweighed Temple's early lead...
Three Crimson heavyweights scored knockouts. After Arthur Oakes and Waldemar Wysocki and disposed of their opponents in the first round of the 155 and 165-pound classes, Hamlin Turner stepped into the ring and threw two rights. The first was wild; the second connected, and the referee stopped the fight...