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...supposed to have persuaded James Ramsay MacDonald to desert his Labor colleagues of a lifetime and become the vote-getting figurehead of the so-called National (but in fact Conservative) Government (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Always the King is represented as a tower of moral strength, aiding his conscience-torn Scottish Prime Minister to decide between Labor and the Nation. Last week this pristine royal legend was rudely spattered. At it gnomish, crippled Philip Snowden, splenetic Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw, heaved the clods of his second volume of autobiography...
...Piccard popped her head out of the gondola of the stratosphere balloon in which she and her husband had taken off eight hours before from Detroit's Ford Airport. She found herself on a wooded farm near Cadiz, Ohio. The big bag, limp, torn and empty, was dismally draped over a tall elm. In a treetop the Piccards' U. S. flag flapped bravely...
...last summer Republicans in Washington gleefully made much of that State's strife-torn Democratic organization. Last week the G. O. P. suddenly found that it had a full-sized family ruckus of its own in the 2nd Congressional District. There a Methodist preacher named Payson Peterson was running against Democratic Representative Conrad Wallgren, one-time national amateur billiard champion...
Threats of unknown forces within the University to put a halt to the address by Ann Burlak, planned for this afternoon, were carried out in part yesterday as practically all the posters placed by the National Student League, with official permission, upon bulletin boards about the University, were systematically torn down...
...Republicans consolidated their torn ranks slowly after the primary but evidently with more effect than the Democrats did. Beside his own 346,000 primary votes, Acting Governor Merriam could count on most of the 385,000 cast for ex-Governor Young and John R. Quinn, chairman of the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. That total of 731,000 roughly equaled the Sinclair 446,000 primary vote and George Creel's 288,000, although many a Creel follower would not vote for Sinclair. Primary figures, however, could not possibly tell the story because hundreds of thousands have subsequently registered...