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Turks, who threw away fez and veil at President Mustafa Kemal's command, set about achieving last week that much more difficult Western reform, a balanced budget...
Died. Bill Picket, 65, oldtime bulldozer on the famed 101 Ranch of Col. Zachary Taylor Miller (TIME, April 4); in Noble County, Okla. A towering Negro, Picket "threw steers with his teeth." To advertise the 101 Ranch show in Mexico City. Col. Joseph C. Miller (brother of Col Zack) once bet that Picket could down a bull as quickly as a toreador. Mexicans whooped with derision, brought a great, black bull down from the mountains, posted $5,000 and the gate receipts. So sure were the Mexicans that Picket would be gored to death that they provided a coffin...
...library of his Manhattan home, dressed and ready for dinner, John Pierpont Morgan sat down at a flat-topped desk, read into two boxlike microphones from a letter which lay there. NBC technicians who alone heard the voice nodded their approval, threw switches for a real broadcast. After an introduction by NBC President Merlin Hall Aylesworth, Banker Morgan donned gold-rimmed spectacles (usually he wears pince-nez), picked up in his right hand a manuscript which he had written longhand, spoke in an easy, deep "telephone" voice. It was Banker Morgan's first broadcast. He did it to help...
...told her I was going back to Elizabeth at dance. She got very mad. She threw a rock and hit me in the chest. She cried she was going to tell on me. Then she got a knife out of her bag and tried to cut me. I threw her down and took.the knife. I hit her with a rock and cut her neck. . . . Then she got up and walked few steps, then fell down. Then I felt very bad. I cried. I went to horse and made horse travel fast away from...
Russell Morrison Evans, Jr., 15, coasting down a Pittsburgh hill, saw that he was about to slide into a pole. He threw himself from the sled, crashed into another pole. Something seemed to break within his abdomen. At Homeopathic Medical & Surgical Hospital where his doctor father took him, x-rays showed that he had ruptured his spleen...