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President de Valera's new Constitution. which would set up in the Free State a state wholly free, with the office of Governor-General abolished and all specific reference to the British Crown removed, will come before the Dail in the form of a Bill before Christmas. The Constitution contains provisions for the election directly by the people of a Chief Magistrate similar to the President of the U. S.; for a bicameral legislature in which the new Senate would be constituted not on party lines but on a functional "corporative state'' basis. "We do not, however...
Unamuno, Stalin & Mussolini. Since Spain's best-known intellectual is the great Unamuno,it was heartening to the White cause this week that Premier Largo Caballero and his Valencians were arraigned as follows by Philosopher Mieuel de Unamuno, Rector of the University of Salamanca : "The University, while not mixing in politics because of its spiritual mission extending through centuries of tradition, feels itself in duty bound to express in a virile manner its condemnation of the crimes of the [Caballero] Loyalists of Spain...
...specified sizes. Three years later Teaman Stchoukine was still convinced that Henri Matisse was a fine painter, gave him carte blanche to decorate the grand staircase of his palace. In his narrow knickerbockers and high laced shoes, Artist Matisse frequented at that time the Moulin Rouge and the Moulin de la Galette, contemplating the dancing cocottes that lame Toulouse-Lautrec had painted so shrewdly a few years earlier. Artist Matisse felt that the farandole, a sort of strumpets' ring-around-a-rosy popular at both music halls, would be a suitable subject for the grand staircase of a Moscow...
Died. Doña Rosa Ester Rodríguez de Alessandri, wife of President Arturo Alessandri Palma of Chile; of peritonitis; in Santiago...
...first international event on the program, for which competition lasted three nights, riders were judged on form after a succession of difficult individual and group jumps. In first place after the first night's performance were the French (Captain François Durand and Lieutenant Amador de Busnel), with 19 faults to 23 each for Chile, Great Britain and the U. S. Jumping in pairs the next evening, the French team was charged ½ a fault, when Captain Durand and Captain Pierre Clave were a step out of alignment at one barrier, but even this left them a lead...