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...nation-wide poll on arms-bearing was undertaken by the Student Federation of America, the Brown University Daily Herald which had editorially denounced war (TIME, April 3), and the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council, whose President James Frederick Green, Yaleman, was permitted to sit in on the Geneva Conference during its siesta last year. Last week the U. S. vote was published. In 27 States, at 70 colleges, 22,627 students∙ voted as follows: for downright pacifism, 8,938 or 39% ; for bearing arms only in case of invasion. 7,342 or 33%; for bearing arms...
Eight hours before the General was to be shot the cabinet meeting broke up in confusion. General Sanjurjo ordered a seven-course lunch. Premier Azana called a second cabinet meeting while the General had his siesta. When he awoke he learned that the second meeting had ended without a decision because Radical Socialist members had threatened to resign if the sentence were commuted. General Sanjurjo ordered a vermouth as the cabinet went into a third session. Three hours before sundown Premier Azana announced to the Cortes that the cabinet had asked President Niceto Alcala Zamora to commute the sentence...
...trusted by the seeker after facts;" it is romance from the word Go. The peaceful African village where the four Negresses lived was a good imitation of the Garden of Eden; the Portuguese ship a floating specimen of civilized corruption. The Negresses were surprised, captured while taking a siesta on the dunes. When they had become fairly used to their shipboard surroundings they were given clothes; one of the priests began their education. He taught them to repeat, parrotwise: "Jesus Christ, son of a Virgin immaculate, died on the Cross. . . ." to which they responded: "Yus klase sunnaver wir ginnimacla dadeonta...
...ever had worked in his life. He is an Andalusian lawyer, and in Andalusia businessmen and lawyers are accustomed to take life easily. As every visitor to Spain knows, one rises about 10 a. m., works till 1 p. m., then there is time out for lunch and siesta. At 3 p. m. shops open again, business proceeds until 7 or 8 P.M. One dines at 9:30. theatres start at 10:30; cafes are open all night. Few Spaniards of importance go to bed before three in the morning...
playwright-brothers Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero seem to produce, their collaborations in the drowsy noons of their native Spain, recording the gentle disturbances which occur in villages where everyone is either anticipating or taking a siesta. Earlier this season, Otis Skinner's genial grunts sounded almost melodramatic in the Quinteros' languorous A Hundred Years Old (TIME, Oct. 14). And now Eva Le Gallienne, simply by swirling on stage in a dark wig and a bright gown with innumerable ruffles, creates what amounts to consternation in a similarly torpid drama. She is the village belle, and all that...