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...quiet has been the revolution that has gripped the island of Madeira for the past month that elderly British ladies continued to totter round the gardens of resort hotels, to slide along the cobblestoned streets of Funchal in steel-runnered sledges drawn by bullocks. Honeymoon couples continued to play tennis. Last week the British cruisers London and Curlew slipped into Funchal harbor. Royal marines went ashore to throw a cordon round the three largest tourist hotels. British tourists having been thus protected, the Portuguese Government was left free to suppress the Madeira revolution as best it could...
...financing was thinly spread and the publishing properties were closely involved with a variety of other Lea-Caldwell activities, notably with Caldwell & Co., investment house, and its subsidiary Bank of Tennessee, which held one-half the stock of Southern Publishers. When, last October the Caldwell businesses began to totter (TIME, Nov. 17, 24) $1,266,310 was drawn from the Commercial Appeal and passed to the Caldwell houses. Few days later the banks crashed and the papers' money was tied up. Aggravating the situation was the 11% decrease in advertising revenue suffered by practically all newspapers in the past...
Like a mouse squeaking at an elephant, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley last week gave Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald his worst scare of the year, caused the unstably balanced Labor Cabinet to wobble, totter...
Unique hero was Reat I. Medcalf, of Oklahoma City. Seeing a fellow workman totter from a derrick 77 ft. above him, he stepped under the hurtling figure, caught him in his arms, was unhurt...
...Convention. What would happen if all the criminals in the world were to become unionized and then go on strike ? Novelist-Playwright Arthur Somers Roche demonstrates in three tedious acts of satire, that virtue would no longer be laudable, police and newsmen would be jobless, numerous industries would totter. His answer is not remarkably trenchant, nor is his playwriting adept...