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...urged His Majesty to appoint a Liberal cabinet " said Senor Francisco Cambo, the great Catalonian leader. "But, 'Personally,' I said, 'I could not take the Prime Ministry until next July. My health is bad now and my throat is weak. I must take care of myself,' I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: So I Said to the King. . . . | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

...Rose McMahon, 14, was given 25?, told that she might go to a cinema. Overjoyed, she danced about, shrilled "Whoopee!" Her somnolent father, Thomas McMahon, bade her be still. Again she crowed. Savage, wrathful, Thomas McMahon sprang up, tripped, fell headlong into a china closet, cut his throat, fractured his skull, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

Scot MacDonald cleared his dry throat. "Really, I am rather surprised," he said, "but since no vital principle was involved [in the vote] the Government will proceed" (i. e. would not resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rim of Doom | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Died. Richard Davenport Harlan, 71, son of the late U. S. Chief Justice John Marshall Harlan, onetime Presbyterian president of Lake Forest College; of a throat infection; in Washington. His wife died three days prior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 2, 1931 | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...pretty well fed up: the Vagabond hereby inaugurates his first active crusade. The Examination must go. Alone he can do nothing. As a Gandhiary incendiary, this pinch of salt would more to smiles, not action. Yet speed is necessary, for the Blue Abomination already has Athena by the throat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/29/1931 | See Source »

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