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...foregoing brief statement of the law I have now to inform you that the statement in TIME is incorrect because it does not give a full statement of the case. That publication neglected to state at the end of the sentence, "So Miss Komarmicka was ordered deported," the con cluding portion of the Department's decision relative to her case, that, however, she be admitted by parole pending adjustment or securing the proper documents which she should have had in her possession when she arrived. Miss Komarmicka was therefore not ordered deported but was after reasonable time for consideration...
...eyes grew wide with alarm. Even the impeccable cravat and faultless morning clothes of Lord Lloyd did not dispel the Fascist's intuitive feeling that anyone who asked the whereabouts of Il Duce's villa must want to murder him. No taker of chances, the con stable arrested the British dictator of Egypt, hurried him to a police station...
...owners were in a desperate quandary. The new laws require them to "apply for confirmation" of their oil titles before Jan. 1, 1927, and accept "concessions" to operate their properties for not more than 50 years from the time they first began to do so. This form of "title con firmation" perfectly illustrates what was meant by the Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee when he said: "Mexico is seeking... to change the nature of property. . .in Mexico. . . ." If the oil titles are not thus "confirmed" or "changed" into 50-year leases, the properties...
...Criss-Cross) : "From Greenville, Ohio, I received a heavy brown pasteboard box, which I carried to the stage of the Globe Theatre, Manhattan, and opened in the presence of a notary public. It con tained several scrapbooks, with clippings, photographs, letters and a typed autobiography up to 1890 of my late friend, Annie Oakley Butler, ablest markswoman in history, who died last month (TIME, Nov. 15). There was no letter of explanation but it seemed apparent that Annie Oakley, with whom I played in a circus some 20 years ago, wished me to be her Boswell...
Late that evening, the Cincinnati found the missing plane, a con necting rod (between crankshaft and cylinder) broken by excessive strain due to oil pressure. Lieutenant Connell and his mates had not had to fall back on their stills (for drinking water) and fishlines-equipment the Hawaiian flight last year proved it advisable to carry...