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...then knew what had happened, and my only thought now was to get home before greater consequences followed. I reached home with no greater annoyance than that occasioned by the fluttering play of colors. "A test of self control faced me, for I must tell my wife the dire possibilities that faced me. We went over the situation tearfully, and my beloved wife assured me, come what may, she would stand by me, and as events proved, she was the greatest comforter God ever gave to man. We could now only wait for the reaction, which came in about...
...years' existence. Dr. Mason, 54, lay critically ill in his Seattle hospital as result of a thrombosis. The thrombosis had compelled amputation of Dr. Mason's left leg (TIME, May 11) and last week threatened amputation of the other. No one knew better than Surgeon Mason how dire the consequences might be. Bravely he sent a "last message" to the medical assembly over which he could not preside. "I have an abiding and unlimited faith in your integrity. I know you will keep faith with the public and never let selfish interests for one moment divert you from...
...week went on it became apparent that a good part of the fear was generated no less by the actual victory of the Popular Front than by the uproarious Rightist press, whose dire predictions on the future of France could be compared in the U. S., perhaps, to a session of the National Association of Manufacturers under the New Deal. In France, however, these die-hard fulminations were taken seriously, with the result that the Paris Bourse was in a near-panic...
...practice which has been generally condemned by public and private authorities was hardly strengthened by the fact that Messrs. Grace & Irvin flatly contradicted each other in their opinion of what would happen to the steel industry if the basing point system were disturbed. Mr. Irvin foresaw a dire collapse in steel prices, fearful mortality among small steel companies. Mr. Grace blandly declared: "Doing away wim the basing point system would increase prices through a decrease in competition...
Saionji's Ace. Against such a dire emergency, Prince Saionji has for many years considered that he had up his Genro kimono sleeve a particularly effective card. This trump is His Highness Prince Fumimaro Konoye, the most promising young aristocrat in Japan, sympathetic toward parliamentary government, yet popular with the Navy and head of Japan's great fighting Fujiwara Clan. Legend makes His Highness a direct descendant of the most exalted Lesser Deity who was in attendance on the Sun Goddess when she created the Earth and begat Japan's present Imperial Family to rule it. History...