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...resigned President protested that Colonel Ibanez should not hold a portfolio while a candidate for the Presidency. The Colonel continued to await the election date, Oct. 24; clutched his portfolio none the less tightly...
Lord Leverhulme (who won his elevation by the able manufacture of a red soap) recently died (TIME, May 18, BUSINESS) and all his famous pictures were locked up in the dusk of a London house to to await disposal. English collectors fingured their cheque books. Mitchell Kennerley, Director of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, sailed for London...
...work of finding west of them, on Ellesmere Island, a suitable spot for a food and fuel way-station between Etah and Cape Thomas Hubbard (Axel Heiberg Land), from which advance base they were to make search flights still farther west where fabulous "Crocker Land" may or may not await discovery...
...rebels were being joined by other tribes whose object was the union of Syria, formerly sponsored (until the French in 1920 kicked him out) by King Feisal of Iraq. On the other hand, the French had been compelled to divert reinforcements destined for Morocco back to Syria to await further developments...
There, in the nation's capital, a triumph was being prepared. King Haakon, who had followed Amundsen's vicissitudes with avidity, would send royal carriages to meet the heroes at the water. He would await them at the palace, ready to pin upon them the Royal Order of St. Olaf,* exhibit them to his subjects from a balcony, welcome them with the great of Norway at a state banquet. The day after, prominent officials would have their chance to make speeches recalling the Viking days, at ceremonies to be held in old Fortress Akershus. A male chorus numbering...