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When James Branch Cabell published The Way of Echen, thereby putting his "final and finishing touch to the Biography of the life of Manuel," Cabellians every-where assumed that their author had wrapped his singing robes over his head and retired till kingdom come. Pending that happy advent, however, the creator of Poictesme must find means to ease his very restless head. To combine retirement with activity he now speaks his mind through a ventriloqual figure. Branch Cabell, sheared of his Christian name, is in all other respects his spit and image...
Excited by stories of the gunfire coming from Bilbao's monastery, the government of Premier Manuel Azana drew up a long-contemplated decree abolishing the Jesuit order in Spain, confiscating all its property, estimated at $30,000,000 exclusive of security and trust holdings in the name of individuals, said to amount to $70,000,000. President Alcala Zamora signed the order. Jesuit superiors were expecting it, novices were ordered to pack up and get ready to leave the country, but suddenly the government grew timorous. Days passed, the decree was not published in the official gazette...
...nonsense. After Castilblanco there were a half-dozen clashes between guards and strikers throughout Spain. Twenty-four people were killed; in one stretch of 48 hours eleven citizens died, 60 were wounded. In the Cortes. Socialist deputies threatened a general strike and attacked the civil guard as terrorists. Premier Manuel Azana threw wide his arms soothingly...
...sooner was the inauguration over, the captains and the troops departed, than Premier Manuel Azana drove to the Palace and insisted on handing in his resignation. Worried President Alcala Zamora called a meeting of statesmen, asked Premier Azana to form another government, which he grudgingly agreed...
...best remedy, however, is not to continue such policies. Constitutions are fundamental, and their provisions should be known and accepted by a special majority. Will the powers that be in the Senior Class government please let members of the Senior class know what it is they are ratifying? Manuel Lee Robbins...