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...army's leader, Lieut. Colonel Ramón Paredes, issued a manifesto: "The unanimous will of the army and navy is that the eminent citizen, Colonel Franco, will continue President of the Government." Two days later, however, ''Eminent Citizen" Rafael Franco, who seized the Presidency also by a bloodless coup in 1936, found himself somewhat less eminent, was "asked" to resign, because he refused to form a Cabinet amenable to the military. Law Professor Félix Paiva, Dean and Rector of the University of Asunción, Vice President in 1920, was named Provisional President...
...Japanese Government, with its practised flair for choosing the safe moment to be offensive, took advantage last week of world-wide preoccupation with Britain's Battle Royal to ram yet another thorn into China's flesh...
Founded in 1889 by Maine's General Thomas Worcester Hyde, Bath Iron Works has had an erratic record. It nearly went under in 1895 when an experimental armored ram built for the Navy failed to develop the speed required. The firm was saved by a special Act of Congress which authorized the craft's acceptance on the ground that the builders were not responsible for its deficiencies. A few years later Bath Iron Works was sold to Charles Michael Schwab's U. S. Shipbuilding Co., which sold it back to General Hyde...
When his behavior has unfavorable reactions, he goes back to the seeress, who creates a new past for him as Ram-Tah, Egyptian king. Possession of his ancestor's shriveled mummy further restores Bean's confidence. Marriage to Mary and the sale of an airplane patent, following the destruction of the mummy, then convince Bean that his deeds are his own instead of Ram...
Under such circumstances it is never pleasant to awake the next morning. Everything is so chaotic and unrecognizable, and one's head feels like a wornout battering ram. But you know all that, and you also know that the wretched one-time reveller needs humoring and kind treatment...