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During the week Madrid denials made no impression on Argentine authorities who affirmed at Buenos Aires that the President of Spain, corpulent regular Republican Manuel Azaña was about to seek refuge in the Argentine Embassy. They said he had appealed to have the Argentine cruiser Veinticinco de Mayo stand by at the Spanish port of Alicante, ready to rescue the President, his pretty young wife and other prominent Republicans from the expected fury of Madrid's proletariat. Dressed always in proletarian blue overalls, Premier Largo Caballero was said to be holding President Azaña virtually...
Last week His Holiness Pope Pius XI turned from the contemplation of troubled Spain to accord honor in the New World to a city once piously named El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles. There he created a new archbishopric, first to be organized in the U. S. in 43 years. From the Province of San Francisco (established in 1853) the Supreme Pontiff detached Bishop Philip George Scher and 98,000 Catholics of the diocese of Monterey-Fresno. From the Province of Santa Fe (established 1850) he de tached Bishop Daniel James Gercke...
Developed by Autogiro Co. of America, the new giro is the product of many extraordinary recent improvements on the bastard airplane with rotors whose crude ancestor Inventor Juan de la Cierva first made hover in the air 13 years ago. The modern giro is completely wingless, is merely a fuselage with a propeller, a tail, a direct-control rotor. The pilot sets the giro's course by tilting the rotor. In the "readable" model the engine for the first time is behind and below the pilot. This gives him perfect vision on the highway, better balance...
Eliot House; Neil G. Melone '37, chairman, Morris De C. Crawford, Jr. '37, Robert C. Holcombe '37, Victor N. Theriot '37, Peter T. Brooks '38, Francis Koppel '38, Robert A. Uihlein...
...Gilson, who was one of the participants in the Harvard Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences, is professor of Philosophy at the College de France, Paris, and Director of the Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto. He was professor at Harvard...