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...brief decree, signed without ceremony by General Justo at the last moment, gave bedridden Roca proper power. With bands blaring, banners flying and two regiments escorting him as a guard of honor, President Justo stepped aboard his special train at Buenos Aires and sped out to the seaport of Mar del Plata (where coast guardsmen last January rescued the President from drowning). There he stepped aboard the Argentine dreadnought Moreno and she rolled up toward Rio de Janeiro 1,500 mi. north...
Officially the Irak Government blamed the crisis not on Rebel Yaku but on the Assyrian Patriarch Mar Shimun, who was deported last week with his father and brother. At once the British Government offered these exiles asylum on the Island of Cyprus to which they flew in a British R.A.F. plane and demanded that King Feisal stay in Bagdad to punish the guilty - whether Christian or Mohammedan. To the Irak Legation in London falcon-eyed King Feisal promptly cabled: "Although everything is normal now in Irak, and in spite of my broken health, I shall await the arrival...
Mottled teeth mar the mouths of children in more than 100 U. S. localities from Talent, Ore. to Conway, S. C., Dental Surgeon Henry Trendley, Dean of the U. S. Public Health Service stated last week. Oakley became aware of the disfigurement in the early 1920's. Children who lived outside town had good teeth. Dentists Frederick S. McKay of Manhattan and H. B. Smith of Jerome, Idaho, suspected drinking water which Oakley residents secured from new wells in the hills. This water contained six parts of fluorine to the million. Well water on outlying farms, where the children...
...Grandad, McBrayer, Old Taylor, Mount Vernon, Sunny Brook. Seton Porter, National Distillers' able, socialite president, further timbered his stronghold last month by acquiring the old Large and Overholt distilleries. And he has tied up with U. S. Industrial Alcohol by forming a jointly-owned distilling company, Penn- Mar-Kentucky...
...Best Novel-Thomas Sigismund Stribling. $1,000 for The Store (TIME, July 4). Best Play-Maxwell Anderson, $1,000 for Both Your Houses (TIME, Mar. 13). Best History-to the late Frederick J. Turner, $2,000 for The Significance of Sections in American History. Best Biography-Allan Nevins. $1,000 for Grover Cleveland (TIME, Jan. 2). Best Volume of Verse-Archibald MacLeish of the editorial staff of FORTUNE, $1,000 for Conquistador (TIME, April...