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TIME, elliptic, meant that there is as yet no basis in law for the application of the Tinkham Amendment, which aimed to exclude from the Reapportionment count inhabitants of states whose franchise has been denied or abridged (i. e., Negroes in Southern states). No Southern state yet stands legally convicted of such denial or abridgement...
President Emilio Fortes Gil had announced that he would leave Mexico City for the national palace at San Luis Potosi that evening, which meant an irritating postponement of negotiations unless the message arrived at once. Meanwhile Secretary Sergio Montt, of the Chilean Embassy, was furiously decoding a cable received in his office from the Vatican. Hurrying to the palace he presented it to the Archbishop. It was Pope Pius XI's sanction of the plan of settlement, in clear, definite terms. A few hours later two statements were issued, one by President Fortes Gil, one by Archbishop Ruiz...
Flying with a mechanic and a passenger between Hartford and Willimantic, Conn, last week, Lieutenant Carl Dixon, Connecticut National Guard pilot, discovered a wheel loose and a strut broken on his landing gear. To land meant wreckage. What to do? He climbed to two thousand feet, gave the controls to the mechanic, who knew but little of piloting, broke a hole in the fuselage bottom, crawled through head first. Hanging by his feet he ingeniously used his belt, a piece of rope and a shoelace to lash the broken gear together. The repair sufficed to let him land safely...
...Pulitzer prize meant $1,000 to Julia Peterkin, the Liberty prize 50 times as much to Fannie Hurst. In Europe, when savants awarded the great Goncourt prize to Author Bedel for this book he received a measure of immortality and 5,000 francs...
Reading LETTERS, issue of June 10, was pleasingly surprised and struck by the originality (or so it seemed to me) of Subscriber Anders regarding inheritable subscriptions. Thought it was meant as an expression of Subscriber Anders' extreme appreciation of TIME and not as something to be desired. Further surprised (also pleasantly) at TIME'S serious consideration of it. TIME is thus shown as ever open to new ideas...