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...narrow margin he lost the run-off primary, but four years later he became the first Governor of Mississippi ever to serve a second term. In that term he wrecked the State's credit. In one swoop he angrily fired 179 State College officials & faculty members, remarking: "Boys, we've just hung up a new record!" So discredited was he that he refused to call a special tax session of the Legislature because its members would not first promise not to impeach him (TIME, June 22, 1931). His prime enemy was a roly-poly politician from Seminary named...
Wellesley last week welcomed its largest entering class since 1925-446 freshmen. They will not, as in times past, learn that coat-hangers must be placed with hooks all pointing the same way, ready for a single swoop of removal. But Wellesley has not forgotten its Great Fire of 1914. When she hears a fire bell, a Wellesley girl automatically slips on shoes and heavy coat, grabs her most valuable possession and runs against time for her fire station...
...next year to decide whether the Saar will be French or German. But now Saar Socialists, Communists and Catholics, faced with choosing between their ancient enemy France and Nazi Germany, are begging to have the plebiscite postponed. Their newspapers howl direfully against Hitler & friends. In reply Nazi terrorists swoop snarling and rending through the Saar. And to make confusion worse confounded French-subsidized newspapers try to sell the Germans on voting to join France...
...that he is as yellow as yellow chalk. Therefore, he enlists, and we next see him mingling with a group of neurasthenic aviators over there. Once in the war, Rocky Thorne becomes a cruel killer. He disobeys orders so that he may soar up to the sun and then swoop down on the tall of some unsuspecting Hun. He breaks all records of bringing down enemy planes, and then he goes to pieces after killing a young German aviator who had down over the American camp to bring a note telling that a wounded American aviator...
...probably less dull than most of its predecessors, being saved by the ingenious idea of having a father unaware of his high school daughter's fallen state and a daughter unaware of her conference-attending father's peccadilloes recognize each other on the brink of incest. The quick swoop of the lustful hawk onto his defenceless prey and the horror of the ensuing recognition provide a few tense moments in the long and wearisome record of the ruination of Ann Dixon...