Word: last
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although he has been a Deputy and Senator in the now defunct Cortes, the Duke has never held states- manly office or high military rank, is primarily a crony of the King and like him addicted to Biarritz, Deauville, St. Moritz. Doubtless Primo was more afraid of offending Alba, last week, than seriously perturbed lest the dilettante Duke seek executive Power...
...groups of 50 at the house of an uncouth old fellow who dresses like a farmer. Standing respectfully in a circle, they strip to the waist, permit him to approach and stroke them with the tip of an "electric pencil." It crackles softly as it passes over their flesh. Last week the Austrian Government announced that Herr Valentin ("Electric Pencil') Zeileis had just paid his tax on an income of $30,000 for last year. Not exactly a charlatan, Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes with his "pencil"-a childishly simple high-frequency coil...
Ever since Chinese authorities seized the Soviet-operated Chinese Eastern Railway (TIME, July 22) and expelled Communist agents from Manchuria, Chinese and Russian soldiers have scowled at each other across Manchuria's barren border, fired occasional shots, made desultory raids. Last week tension snapped. Soviet strategists, choosing a moment when civil war wracked half of China, sent four modern divisions, complete with tanks. over the line. Two divisions moved west from Vladivostok, two east from Chita to clamp Manchuria in a Soviet vise...
...Hailar, first important town occupied by the Russians last week, correspondents reported 12,000 Chinese casualties, lines of demoralized troops fleeing for the interior, looting as they went. In Dalai Nor several hundred terrified coal miners took refuge at the bottom of a shaft before the Soviet advance. Soviet troops stopped the pumps, drowned the lot. Crowds of refugees gathered at all stations along the Chinese Eastern Railway. Special trains chuffed 'back and forth, rushing Chinese citizens to safety, making no effort to collect fares...
...Havana last week Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez Signed a city ordinance forbidding the use of rear view mirrors in taxicabs. Citizens had complained that cab drivers were using the mirrors for "the impudent eyeing of the pulchritude and behavior of passengers." Safe therefore from the impudent eyes of Cuban cabdrivers was U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, who last week presented his credentials to President Gerardo Machado as successor to Ex-Ambassador Col. Noble Brandon Judah...