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Panamanian President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia heard last week that the National Assembly, due to convene on Jan. 2, might oust him from the Presidency, which he seized by "Constitutional" flimflam in 1941. He decided to do something about it. By summary decree he dissolved the Assembly and suspended the Constitution. He also imposed strict censorship and posted mounted police around the hostile National Youth Congress...
...extra innings, 2 to 0, behind Hoekstra's no-hit pitching, the playoffs monopolized last week's attention. The Browns coasted to a 16 to 0 win over the Dodgers in the first round while the Tigers were forced to come from behind with three in the seventh to oust the Beavers, 4 to 3 with Bob Zehrung's single bringing in the tying and winning runs...
Generally, P.A.C. has not squandered its money and effort in places where it had little chance of success. But it did all it could, which was not enough, to oust Massachusetts' egregious Congressman James Michael Curley...
...Grand Councilors who voted to oust the Duce last July 24 were tried for their lives. But at the trial in Verona's grim, massive Castel Vecchio, built in 1335 near Diocletian's amphitheater, only six defendants were present. The others were in hiding. The judges were all Italians; no Germans took part. Many believe that the judges had been told to go as far as they liked, since the Duce would suspend the sentences in time...
From Madrid came an experienced, serious observer with a report that Spain is ripe for revolution: "I had the opportunity to talk with all sorts of people, diplomats, businessmen, Government officials of all kinds, people on the streets. Everywhere I heard talk of an inevitable blood bath to oust Francisco Franco and his dictatorship. Even high-ranking military figures confided that revolution is the only...