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...executive power to Vice President Enrique V. Martinez, trusty henchman. Under the Argentine Constitution a president can do this whenever he feels like it, can also resume his full original powers by a stroke of the pen. First act of Temporary President Martinez was to declare martial law and clap on iron censorship-but no rigor could conceal the angry disappointment of the people. Those bombs should have meant the end of El Hombre's dictatorship, and they were going to mean...
Britain's Gandhite. Suddenly, Congressman Snell and every one else in the chamber beheld an ascetic looking Laborite with high cheekbones and owlish glasses leap up from his bench and, pulling a queer white cap from his pocket, clap it on his head. What did that mean...
...with accepting many thousands of dollars "from Moscow," when a sheaf of documents was produced to prove their guilt (TIME, July 22, 1929), it was Berlin Correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker of the New York Evening Post who exposed the European forgers of the "Red Documents," roused German courts to clap them into jail. Last week famed Correspondent Knickerbocker sent from Berlin to Manhattan some despatches so startling that, should fire follow their smoke, he would become a very celebrated correspondent indeed. He said he had learned "from a high official German source" that...
...House, lay down on a bench and ostentatiously went to sleep. (Her husband, Sir Oswald, resigned from the Cabinet after quarrelling with Chancellor Snowden ? TIME, June 2.) As the bitter night wore on members of all parties sprawled and snored on their benches, awakened once by a sudden clap of thunder, roused occasionally by party whips to speak a needed word. The whips at last became so frantic as to stir up members slumbering in the lobbies by piping on police whistles...
...fair deal," said Ernest Thurtle, author of the Bill, "to take a man from a farm or a factory, clap a tin hat on his tead, and then shoot him if his nerve fails...