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...properly speaking a President but an out & out Dictator, General Machado recently signed a bill passed by Cuba's Parliament at his behest extending the suspension of constitutional guarantees until the expiration of his term in 1935. In effect Cuba has been under martial law since her citizens' constitutional rights were suspended Dec. 11, 1930. National City Bank of New York, Chase National Bank of New York and Chicago's Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. lately joined in loaning the Machado Government $2,278,125 which it needed June 30 to meet payments on Cuba...
...Andalusia, south of Seville. Largest, fiercest, most cunning are the bulls of the sons of Don Eduardo Miura, whose ganadería is near Seville. Miura bulls kill many horses.* Few matadors like to fight Miuras; some will not. Many breeders have bred smaller bulls at the behest of cautious matadors, but if a bull is too small he is whistled out of the ring. For those who wish to judge bulls before they reach the ring two occasions are important: the feria (fair) at Seville in the spring and the July encierros at Pamplona...
Japanese politicians, more fearful than ever of a military coup d'etat, tried to save the Empire's parliamentary system last week by yielding abjectly to War Minister Sadao Araki, reshuffling some Cabinet posts at the military clique's behest, appropriating all the money demanded by the fighting services and nastily adjourning the Diet before worse should befall. The Opposition (Minseito) Party, not daring to oppose, wailed a public prediction through the lips of Deputy Gotaro Ogawa that Japan's occupation of Manchuria will soon have cost 300,000,000 yen ($100,000,000 current rate)?a vast...
...gratitude does not in any way alter my conviction that she [Madame Zenatello] has been an untrustworthy and unfaithful agent." Husband August Mesritz gave details: "Not only did Maria Gay treat my wife as a puppet to be let out of a box or put in again at her behest but she seemed to live in deadly fear that my wife would become on intimate terms with the Metropolitan management or with other opera stars . . . constantly warned her that the people with whom she came in contact were scheming and dishonest and that no business affairs should ever be discussed...
...help 600 small liberal arts colleges in the U. S., President Hoover became a committee-member last September of the Liberal Arts College Movement, to which 235 small colleges belong (TIME, Sept. 14). At the behest of Senator Simeon Davison Fess, onetime (1907-17) president of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio), he agreed to join in a radio appeal for the group. Last week, along with Speechmaker John Huston Finley of the New York Times, Director Charles Riborg Mann of the American Council of Education and President Albert Norman Ward of Western Maryland College, Chairman...