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Ruling on an appeal by Excelsior El Pais, a newspaper suppressed by President Machado's so-called "gag decree," the Cuban Supreme Court upheld the decree last week, thus reversed reports current in Havana (TIME, Feb. 2) that the Court had prepared a decision holding the President's act unconstitutional...
...spark from this fire ignited some excelsior which had been left carelessly under a box car on a siding less than 100 feet from the watchmen's shanty. The freight car was loaded with small shells which exploded and set fire to other cars. Finally a car loaded with black powder in the very centre of the yard exploded and after that everything went...
...difficulty in learning the who-what-where of the affair. In the U. S. the New York Times would publish dignified front-page headlines-and all the ghastly details. But in Mexico City, used though the people are to blood and violence, the biggest and best Mexican newspaper, El Excelsior, would omit the episode altogether...
This situation is only a week old. El Excelsior has hitherto joined with other Mexican dailies in playing up crime at its goriest. But thoughtful Mexicans have been saying that the press may be to blame for such Mexican wrongdoing. El Excelsior last week voluntarily took this view, announced it would suppress all news of crime. Good Mexicans thought this action well befitted the daily whose circulation (61.500) and influence are the largest in the land. Well pleased was Editor Manuel L. Barragan to be able to reprint a feather for Excelsior's sombrero, a letter from President Ortiz...
...clean aromatic smell of raw pine wood spread through the White House. Excelsior littered the floors. Busy workmen in overalls came and went. Mrs. Coolidge was packing. Into 150 new boxes, crates and barrels under her careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag antlers, desk sets, etc. etc.- symbols of a people's free-handed affection for their President. Eight Coolidge trunks entered the White House in 1923; 16 trunks will go back to Northampton, Mass., not to mention all the barrels, boxes, crates. "It is," President Coolidge remarked, "easier to get into...