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...Commons. The only way to break the Lords' veto was for the King to appoint (or threaten to appoint) sufficient new Peers pledged to pass the bill to outnumber the Lords who were opposed. The Commons were legally impotent to force George V to take this step. A rash King, or a stubborn or a mad, might have stood against his Commons, and blocked progressive legislation for years. Wise King-Emperor George V decided to break the deadlock, did it by threatening the Lords, and has ever since risen steadily in the affection of his people...
Peru. The first capital city founded by Europeans in any of the Americas was Lima (see Map). This was the "City of Kings," the very mecca of Spain's rash conquistadors, the "fairest gem on the shores of the Pacific," and the haughty citadel from which the Spanish Viceroy proclaimed his rule over "the entire Continent of South America...
...Manhattan, police, alert with horror, last week patroled ferry, tube and tunnel terminals to prevent one John Desnatos sneaking into the city. A leper with a rash across his forehead, he had escaped from the isolation hospital at Belleville...
...would be a rash man who would state that we are finally entering the industrial millennium, but there is a great ray of hope that America is finding herself on the road to a solution of the greatest of all her problems. That problem is to adjust our economic system to our racial ideals...
Last week a mixed commission was rapidly adjusting the total sum which Nationalist China must pay because her rash soldiery sacked the U. S. Consulate a year and a half ago (TIME, April 4, 1927); and there was every prospect that on Oct. i, 1928 the salute of U. S. gunboats will be returned with alacrity by the so-called "Chinese navy...