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...corrupt Conservative, a puppet set up by the U. S. and elected only under duress by the Nicaraguan Congress. They have mobilized an army to overthrow him and have proclaimed as a rival president, Dr. Juan Sacasa, who has been recognized by Mexico* (TIME, Dec. 20). Last week the duel between Nicaragua's two presidents was enlivened by U. S. intervention (see below...
...Representative R. Walton Moore (Dem.) of Virginia to "quit work for the afternoon and go sightseeing in Virginia." Together with Mrs. Coolidge they ' quietly left the White House, motored south along the road which Henry Clay and John Randolph had traveled one early morning to fight a duel.* The Presidential party halted at the farmhouse which President Madison had occupied in 1814 when the British captured Washington and burned the White House. At Fairfax courthouse they looked upon the wills of George and Martha Washington, read some reports of an early Virginia Grand Jury. The clerk of the court...
...Pirandello cogitated, frowned, beamed at last upon his honorably quarrelsome friends, invited them to a garden party, suggested that they bring swords. . . . At the garden party last week, Signor Pirandello announced that to divert his guests he would direct a scene from a motion picture now in production, a duel scene. While two cameras ground, and unwitting female guests idly twirled parasols, Massimo Bontempelli "laid on" with Giuseppe Ungaretti, pinked him at last in the right arm, walked victorious from the undeadly field of honor...
Contrasts. The foreign policies of Poincaré and Briand are, re- spectively, as flaming war-oil and quenching peace-water. Briand has just fought and been defeated by Herriot in a political death grapple which Briand described on the floor of the Chamber as a "per- sonal duel." MM. Briand, Herriot, Painlevé and Sarraut are of the Left; MM. Poincaré, Tardieu and Bokanowski are of the Right...
...Briand: "'We must have the courage to call things by their names. There is a duel between the president of the Chamber and the president of the Council (Premier). That there should be such a duel at this moment is tragic beyond words...