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...Captain's barge from the cruiser Principe Alfonso rose and fell with the tide. King Alfonso in a brown overcoat and grey felt hat jumped from his car, strode forward nervously puffing a cigaret. Grey-haired Admiral Magaz, onetime member of Dictator Primo de Rivera's cabinet advanced snuffling con solations. Alfonso threw aside his cigaret...
Confirmed by St. George's in his leader ship, Stanley Baldwin stands to be further strengthened, perhaps this week, by the rumored decision of Sir John Simon to quit the Liberal Party and join the Con servative. Next to David Lloyd George, Sir John is the leading Liberal. Should he desert, Mr. Lloyd George was expected last week to throw in his lot with James Ramsay MacDonald, enter a formal "Lib-Lab Coalition Cabinet." Mr. MacDonald, for obvious reasons, was understood to want Mr. Lloyd George to take the minis try concerned with unemployment. But the Welshman continues to fancy...
...Paolo Pio Perazzo, who died in 1910, was poisoned by the bite of a mad dog while attempting to aid a child whom the dog had attacked. He had led a life of piety and devotion, throwing all his energies into the task of assisting railwaymen to improve the con- ditions under which they lived and worked. In return the Italian Railwaymen's Association is now contributing funds for the expense of Perazzo's beatification...
...After the little fashion-plate had carried his point and walked off, Old Man Scripps is supposed to have uttered the famed encomium, the truth of which other great men have learned about Roy Howard: "That young man boots." will never get indigestion licking my Aftermath, The court decision con signal firming for the the sale of maddest the Worlds newspaper was scram the ble for circulation and advertising that New York newsmen could recall. Every paper in the city burst forth with great advertisements, bidding for the Worlds' late readers (313,911, morning; 276,267, evening...
...curricular activities. It has the double advantage over objective study of at once submitting all conclusions to the harsh light of public debate and at the same time providing the possibility of a broad view on all subjects by the presentation of a large variety of arguments pro and con...