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Drastic precautions against disaster while France elected her 14th President in succession to assassinated 13th President Doumer last week included six fire engines parked close to the Palace of Versailles lest it should ignite, 3,250 infantry men and 600 cavalrymen massed in the Palace courtyard, mobilization of all nearby military garrisons and a ceaseless roaring patrol of airplanes overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New President | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

Herbert is heavily built, a noisy dynamo even at play. Mortimer is lean, quiet, takes his fun and work quietly. On the golf course Herbert shatters opponents' nerves by the way he chatters, exults, boasts, bets. His directors are fearful of accepting cigars from him lest they explode in mid-meeting. His cigaret cases have been known to contain alarming jack-in-the-boxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brotherly Merger | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...Wabasha." Officials scowled apprehensively for the trimotored Ford carried eight passengers. "Freeburg talking. Motor vibrating badly." Cool, Pilot Freeburg continued to describe to headquarters how the terrific vibration of the unbalanced propeller jerked the motor from its mountings, how it lodged in a wing strut, damaged the landing gear. Lest the 500 Ib. of dead metal drop and injure some one on the ground, he swung his crippled ship out over the Mississippi River, banked steeply, shook the engine off, watched it fall down, down, down safely into the water. After requesting a relief ship, he maneuvered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Northwest Hero | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Lest the Treasury Department consider Typographer Dwiggins merely a destructive critic he went further still. The back of the book is devoted to an explanation of what he would do about it with designs full size, printed in colors, for the currency of the mythical Republic of Antipodes: a five crown note; a page of postage stamps; a new cancellation stamp; a design for printed stamped envelopes; a metered mail stamp; a page of internal revenue stamps for tobacco and cigarets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Decorous Jubilee | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

Lucy takes another love, her son Peter. That he may become a doctor she works herself to the bone. She will accept no help, will not even marry, lest the purity of her motives be smirched. Her mother-love is not so pure as she thinks; when Peter marries, her life is ruined once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queer Fish | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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