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...shackled prisoners. Last week the Government which succeeded the long reign of implacable Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez removed the last political prisoner from the Rotunda to a new prison nearby. The Rotunda was opened as a museum piece of past tyrannies. The public was cordially invited to inspect its square quarter-mile of horrors...
...least two nations not prepared to leap at each other's throats at the slightest provocation. Further, it means that the Japanese capture of Britain's Chinese and Indian markets have registered strongly on the English mind, and that henceforth the United States and Great Britain will inspect Eastern affairs on an eye-to-eye basis...
Queen Mary. His first duty in Glasgow last week was to go out to John Brown's shipyard to inspect Queen Mary, the British challenger to the French champion Normandie, "Largest and Fastest Liner in the World." The Queen Mary is of roughly the same size as the 160,000-horsepower Normandie but of 40,000 greater horsepower. Hull designs of the two superships are sufficiently different to make horsepower not necessarily the decisive factor. Obviously the speed trials of the Queen Mary late this month off Ireland will be an international sporting event of first magnitude. Aboard...
Snorting at this, quarterdeckers of the Royal Navy recalled last week the incident a few months ago on the Riviera when the aides-de-camp of Edward of Wales noticed at the last moment that he was about to inspect a British warship bareheaded. As this was contrary to Navy rules and tradition, they hastily pressed upon H. R. H. a shapeless white hat which he angrily refused to wear (TIME, Sept...
...which add great zest to already stirring issues. The possible effects demand some sort of estimate. We should not forget that in 1932 he received the biggest minority vote in history. As a probable indication of the way his thoughts are tending, it is not out of order to inspect his flattering mention of Cleveland-the only president to make a come-back after being defeated. Certainly this much rises out of the mist of Republican politics-Hoover recently has become much stronger. In the national convention he will quite possibly have the largest following. Weighed conservatively, his influence...