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...Arizona off on the right foot with a "forward- looking document." President Taft, after ordering the clause on the recall of judges removed, signed the new constitution. Arizona became a state; Mr. Hunt became Governor, forthwith added the recall as an amendment. His career has been both stormy and paradoxical- hated by many, but seldom defeated, silent but aggressive, timid among friends but fearless among enemies, lusty cowpuncher foe of gamblers. Even his mustache is a paradox-once frowsy, now neatly waxed...
Political Paradox. Mgr. Seipel (Christian Socialist) succeeds as Chancellor, Dr. Rudolf Ramek, also a Christian Socialist. Not only is the new Chancellor of the same party as his predecessor, but they are both agreed on the fundamental policy of resistance to the incessant demands of Austria's organized state employes for higher...
...Actually the "conservative" party of republican Austria. From this misnomer arises the paradox presented by Chancellor Seipel when, though a Socialist, he dons ecclesiastical robes and celebrates mass as the politico-religious hero of Austrian Catholics...
Able Ambassador Sheffield referred of course to the "mental process" by which Mexicans, a people nominally nine-tenths Roman Catholic, have embarked upon the extermination of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico. Turning from this psychological paradox to a concrete fact-the apprehension of onetime Mexican Secretary of War Enrique Estrada in California with an "army" of 174 men bound for Mexico (TIME, Aug. 30) -Mr. Sheffield said with emphasis...
...Doubtless this seeming paradox is explicable by the fact that few experienced motorists drive far over wet roads without snapping anti-skid chains on their tires. *The statistics did not warrant this admonition, showing less than 1% of cases where the driver was intoxicated...