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What the Supreme Court had done to vex Albania's royal Dictator and whether or not a new Supreme Court will be appointed, Albania's censors refused to let the world know. As everyone knows, little King Zog is a protégé of big Dictator Benito Mussolini who pampers His Majesty with guns, ammunition, loans...
...appeared in bookstores last week* started out to be Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey's account of his discovering the source of the Orinoco River (TIME, Aug. 10). But for a long time he had wanted to speak out about men, institutions and conditions in Latin America which have vexed him. His book turned from a travelog into a philippic. Lest readers doubt his competence to criticize he took care to detail that he has spent but 30 months of the past 31 years outside of South America. For 25 years he was physician & surgeon to mines, railways, sugar...
...debts and reparations, You're a blight on all the nations, You embitter their relations, You're the chief of all causations Of their woes and tribulations, Of the problems that perplex them, Of the ills that grieve and vex them, Of the burdens that oppress them, And the sufferings that distress them, The anxieties that fret them, And the dangers that beset them...
...October in Manhattan at the Park Avenue Hospital, a private psychotherapeutic sanitarium. Last week the New York Daily Mirror revealed, for the first time, the official findings of her autopsy. An overdose of heroin killed her. The Daily Mirror's article was a piece of journalistic enterprise designed to vex the publishers of the New York Daily News, its rival, and of the nickel weekly Liberty. For Liberty the week before had commenced a vivid, sympathetic biography of Jeanne Eagels, "genius and drunkard?artist and hellion?poet and devil?she battled to the stars!'' Liberty's article said she died...
Since President Herbert Hoover has caused to be publicly made known that he is vexed when people write to him and give the letter to the press before he replies (TIME, Aug. 26), it almost seemed last week that L'Americain had deliberately set out to double-vex the President. His action was applauded by the French Chamber of Deputies. Soon afterward the Chamber appropriated $50,000,000 to build seven submarines, six destroyers, one battle cruiser, four auxiliary ships and to buy a goodly supply of torpedoes and shells...