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...When inquiries both at the State Department and the British Embassy drew blanks, newshawks began to do their own research. They discovered that the three bits of land had been claimed for the U. S. in 1860 under the terms of the Guano Islands Act. Jarvis, a treeless, scrubless coral patch less than two sq. mi. in area, was originally discovered by the U. S. sailing ship Eliza Thomas in 1821. In the days when the nitrates from bird-droppings were worth big money, Jarvis was an important place for guano hunters...
...Hearted Bryan Sirs: William Jennings Bryan's talks for Coral Gables were not entirely out of a good heart (gratis), as you state in TIME, Sept. 30, if we are to believe M. R. Werner in his Bryan: "He also devoted part of his time to delivering lectures for a Florida real estate company at $250 a lecture. Bryan sat in an arm chair on a float and talked to the crowd that lined the shore of a lagoon. A narrow strip of water separated Bryan from the crowd on shore. A large cotton umbrella sheltered his bald head...
...York City Right is Reader Swain. Ballyhooer Bryan was paid at the rate of $75,000 a year for two years by George E. Merrick, promoter of Coral Gables. He received $100.000 cash, $50.000 in real estate. Mourned Promoter Merrick: "I wish I had him now."-ED. Same Meat Sirs: Need Hitlerite "Bait" Rosenberg waste all those words to explain a concept of holiness [TIME, Sept. 30]? Twenty-one years ago, it was compacted into the simple phrase, "Gott mit Vns." The world understood it then and still does understand it. And no matter how thin Spiritualist Rosenberg may slice...
...less of a sinecure was the rescue of the stranded ship. Though moving at only 9 m.p.h. when she struck, the 650-ft. liner had shoved her entire length onto the coral reef, was punctured in several places, seemed at first glance to have reached the end of her 27-year career. Still on board with a skeleton crew, harassed Captain Johan van Dulken yammered for tugs, kept one eye cocked on the horizon for their approach, the other on the sky for signs of bad weather, which he well knew would batter his ship to bits. For five days...
...what interested SEC officials the most was the sale of some $8,000,000 of city bonds, long since in default. As any money spent by the municipality directly or indirectly advanced Mr. Merrick's dream, Coral Gables Corp. often arranged for the sale of the city's bonds. For one issue the corporation paid the city 97¢ on the dollar, then resold the bonds to bankers at 92¢, pocketing the loss because the proceeds were used to complete civic improvement promised lot-owners. Another $4,500,000 issue, which the corporation purchased from the city for a little less...