Word: iii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to induce him to hold the inauguration in the dry chamber of the House. Noon came, and Franklin Roosevelt's term of office expired but not his tenacity. He had the last word as the curtain fell: "If they can take it, I can take it." Act III was the taking of the oaths. More than 20 minutes late the ex-President and ex-Vice President came out to the dripping inaugural stand. John Nance Garner was the first to make history. Senator Joseph T. Robinson administered the Vice Presidential oath. He answered with a vigorous...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: Three years ago the Bulgarian Chauffeurs' Association, in recognition of his many roadside repairs, elected Tsar Boris III their president. Last week the Yugoslav Railwaymen's Union elected Boris "an honorary locomotive engineer" because "he really knows how to drive a locomotive." Groping about Malacanan Palace before dawn, early-rising President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines reached for a light switch, barked his shins in the dark, found his way to a telephone, ordered immediate cancellation of Philippine daylight saving time two weeks before it was scheduled...
Baron Bumped Off. Dead, apparently shot in the back by a Red Militia execution squad, was Baron Jacques de Borchgrave, First Secretary of the Belgian Legation in Madrid. Incensed at Brussels, the Government of His Majesty King Leopold III demanded $35,000 indemnity from Spanish Premier Largo Caballero, plus a Spanish apology and full military honors for the Baron. His corpse was dug up and the Baron de Borchgrave was found to have been killed by a pistol shot just behind the ear in the classic style of "Spanish bumping off parties" (TIME, Jan. 11) and Chinese executions...
...major upset in eastern collegiate boxing circles, Coast Guard Academy whipped the Crimson mittmen, 5 1-2 to 2 1-2, at New London Saturday night. Captain P. D. Olney III scored Harvard's sole triumph by whipping MacLaughlin in the 155-pound class. This is the varsity's first defeat in two starts...
...impression of a person emerging from a grave illness or who had just escaped from some great danger." Once again-this-time she was 55- Catherine sat by the deathbed of a son who was also King of France. And again she had one to take his place. Henri III fled from his unwanted job as King of Poland and came home to see what he and his mother could salvage. He had to borrow 100,000 francs from a Florentine merchant to get to his coronation. The sands were rapidly running out. With the help of his maternal adviser...