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...Criminal Court of Mexico City on charges of sedition and "criminal provocation." The Almazánistas countered by preparing written declarations to be presented at the hearings instead. Outsmarted, the Camacho headquarters hastily resumed its former position, declaring: "The Almazánistas may call the people to rebellion until doomsday without receiving any answer...
...352nd anniversary of the appearance off the Cornish coast of Spain's "Invincible" Armada, 130 ships transporting 24,000 men, passed last week without incident. That day had been singled out in unofficial German predictions and warnings as Britain's Doomsday. But for yet another week, from each new day to each new hour, Britons watched the time tick past, and wondered: When? The monstrous irony of last week's waiting was the way waiting Britons had to fight their own Government in defense of the same liberties which Germany threatened. A people's revolt, reflected...
...DOOMSDAY MEN-J. B. Priestley -Harper...
...Author Priestley presented one of the most excited and semi-mystical rhapsodies on that section that has appeared since English writers, with strange literary consequences, started wintering in the U. S. Southwest. Even the boldest guess could not have anticipated the strange desert influence that breathes from The Doomsday Men- a lively mixture of adventure, mystery and improbabilities, free of literary significance but heavily weighted with a moral regarding the curse of social pessimism...
Harvard has been at this sort of business for so long that it can bide its time Harvard, almost alone among our universities, need not hurry. For it knows that if it never did anything else from now until doomsday, it has already vastly surpassed the fondest anticipations of its founders in contributing to the "advance of learning and to the perpetuation thereof to posterity...