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...least a twelvemonth enemies of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré have confidently prophesied that his Cabinet would fall soon after he should have put the franc back on a gold basis-a deed done last fortnight (TIME, July 2). Even staunchest friends feared, last week, for the grizzled statesman's grip on Power. His famed Cabinet of Sacred Union comprises representatives of parties bitterly opposed, who laid down their political tomahawks solely because of the desperate emergency created by the slithering fall of the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). Today the paper franc is good as gold; and French...
...Democratic Convention, was furiously ashamed. Witnesses declared that at least one of the lynchers had worn a policeman's uniform. But the police force cleared itself by obtaining from one A. B. Wheeler, boilermaker, a confession that he and six other rowdies, whom he named, had done the deed. One of the lynchers was an ambulance driver. Houston cried for justice upon what Jesse Hoiman Jones, the biggest man in town, called "a stigma and a blot on the good name of Texas...
...that he published an editorial flaying the U. S. press for not recognizing the epic achievement of a Chinese student of a Methodist institution of learning. Said the editorial: "We are glad a Chinese girl won the honor. Had some society woman, sponsored by some rich party, done this deed, volumes of front pages would have come...
...Turkey. But long before the fire burned, Kemal and Halide had parted. She divorced him when he proposed to take a second wife under the old polygamous law of Turkey. Paradoxically he turned to this same old law when he wished to divorce his second wife, and accomplished the deed simply by repeating three times the traditional formula: "I divorce you." Shortly thereafter the new Turkish code, containing Occidentally stringent divorce laws, came into effect...
...University, proud possessor of a Cumnock Cup (1927), early this school year leased a local theater; called it The University Playhouse; presented four major plays, The Pelican, The Family Upstairs, Outward Bound, In Love with Love; attained the distinction of being the only organization of its kind possessing, by deed or lease, a playhouse; presenting therein major plays; receiving only advice from its collegiate connection; making expenses...