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...fight centered about the question of Imperialism, Dollar Diplomacy, and such, lapsing into obscurity only for a time, as the economic conquest of the sugar resources was completed and as we turned our eyes to more pressing affairs, here and in Europe. But now with the violent removal of Butcher Machado, the United States becomes once more amusedly interested in Cuba Libre. And it is likely to remain so, for Cuba has now been torn into such utterly discordant groups that plenty of trouble can be expected. The island has a powerful labor movement on one side, an intermediate Fascist...
...Cuba last week were not the sergeant-led army, nor the Cabinet of President Grau San Martin, but a group of 30 tousle-haired, secretly worried young people known as the Directorio Estudiantil All had been oppressed, not a few had been imprisoned and tortured, by Machado the Butcher. The youngest is 19, the oldest 30, and all were students of the University of Havana which was shut by Dictator Machado...
...became assistant manager of its Washington stations, WRC and WMAL. Sure 'nuff, he had one a 300-lb. shark, measuring about 7 ft.! It was the last of four caught by our party, which also included Harold Talburt, Scripps-Howard's 1933 Pulitzer Prizewinning cartoonist; Harry C. Butcher, Columbia Broadcasting System's Washington representative; Dr. E. B. Brooks, Washington pediatrician and Herbert L. Pettey, sec- retary, Federal Radio Commission. After the shark was properly played and fatigued, he was brought alongside, lashing, was gaffed and hoisted in-but not before his blood had splashed my TIME...
Thus far the headsmen employed have been "usually butchers by trade." They are not yet wearing the ceremonial full dress prescribed by Captain Goring who delights to set fashions and even designed his own uniform as German Air Minister. Thus far the butchers have scorned to wear masks. Assistants bind the condemned man, shave his neck and hold him down squarely against the block. A state's attorney reads the verdict of Death, cries. "Executioner do your duty!" Not bad fellows, several butchers have treated the condemned to hearty meals at their own expense the night before execution, supplying...
Frank was removed to the State Prison Farm at Milledgeville on June 20, 1915. On the night of July 17, William Creen, a murderer serving a life sentence, slashed Frank's throat with a butcher knife. "I guess they've got me," groaned Frank, blood pouring from his jugular vein. But they had not yet "got" him. Physicians took 25 stitches in his neck, saved his life until the early morning of Aug. 17. Then 25 masked men raided the Prison Farm, seized Frank in his night clothes, streaked cross-country by automobile to Marietta where Mary Phagan...