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March 25?Convention of the restored Spanish parliament; at Madrid. Last previous parliamentary sitting: September 1923 (soon suspended by Primo de Rivera's coup d'état of Sept...
March 25-Convention of the restored Spanish parliament; at Madrid. Last previous parliamentary sitting: September 1923 (suspended by Primo de Rivera's historic coup d'état of Sept...
...scene today there remains secure (if not supreme) the master intrigant His Grey Eminence General Alexandre Averescu. Seemingly no freak of fortune, no blow of fate can dislodge him from his niche of power. He used to alternate as Prime Minister with the Bratianus, he has played courtly tit-tat-to with Queen Marie, he gives fatherly advice to George Bratianu, and by King Carol he was recently made a Marshal of Rumania. To widowed Mme Vintila Bratianu, His Majesty wired condolence, praising the "energy and labor" of her husband. His funeral was almost regal. Three special trains conveyed...
...after rich Jew, staying behind to protect their German properties as best they might, occurred a paradoxical but sound idea. Why not contribute to the "Brown Shirt" party fund? Then, in case fiery Herr Hitler should try another coup d'état (like that which he and General von Ludendorü failed to carry through in 1923) surely Jewish contributors would not find Fascist "thunder squads" crashing in their doors. Last week swaggering Hitlerites boasted scornfully of having been offered such "Jew-cash," would not admit to taking...
...seances in specially-constructed laboratories. At one of these seances, "ectoplasm" from the medium takes independent shape, absorbs Mr. Parham, announces itself as the Lord Paramount, savior-dictator of England. Sir Bussy and his skeptical companions acknowledge the dictator, do his bidding. There is a coup d'état, Parliament is closed, England put under martial law. The Lord Paramount wants a war and gets it, but it is more than he bargained for. In a desperate attempt to seize the privately-controlled laboratory where the world's most powerful poison gas is stored, the Lord Paramount...