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...Author. Miguel de Unamuno, onetime rector of the University of Sala manca (Spain's oldest), great philosopher of Spain, bitter enemy of the recent dictatorship, was banished by the late Dicta tor Primo de Rivera, spent six years in exile in France. Last February Primo de Rivera fell, an amnesty was declared (TIME, Feb. 10), Unamuno returned to Spain. Said he: "I return to work for the Spanish Republic!" Home only a few weeks, he was attacked by a savage dog in Zamora, had his left arm broken, his right hand badly torn...
...offer. Senator Dill explained that a private friend had said something about a judgeship but that he (Dill) considered it only a joke. California's Senator Johnson rattled off a speech against confirmation at such high speed that the galleries heard only a blur of sound. Idaho's Sena- tor Borah was in the middle of a long, involved sentence when he was cut short by the Vice President's gavel calling for the vote. Result...
Although Crowell had owned The Men tor since 1920, it was not until last autumn that it was resolved to dress the magazine up and try to make it sell. Founded in 1913, the earliest known Mentor was :a weekly. Each issue was devoted to one particular cultural subject?art, travel, letters. Foliowise, it also contained several loose-leaf rotogravure art reproductions. Then it became a semimonthly, then a monthly. Last September it fell into the capable hands of Hugh Anthony Leamy, a onetime associate editor of Collier...
April 8?Illinois primaries tor U. Senate. Republican antagonists: Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick...
STRIKE UP THE BAND! and SOON (Vic-tor)-George Gershwin's contributions to the season's hits. The first is fine satire on the big-parade spirit; the second is as teasing as tunes are made...