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...puppet as President of Mexico. But at last the Party had found a man who sincerely believed in its program. Impassively, almost imperceptibly, prim-faced Cárdenas undercut Calles by giving the people some of the things Calles had promised them. When, last year, Calles suddenly tried to crack down on his man, he found that Cárdenas had sewed up the loyalty not only of the peasants and workers but of the Army as well...
...home constituency of Auxerre-Avallon, France's Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin reacted sharply to the German proposals. He called in to the Foreign Office the French Ambassadors at Berlin, London, Rome and Brussels, suggested to the Locarno Powers a new conference at Brussels this week to crack down once more on Germany...
Deciding eventually that the Count could not absorb the pus in the abscess, Dr. Castillo called into consultation Dr. Ricardo Núñez Portuondo, crack surgeon, onetime president of the Cuban Federation of Medicine. Surgeon Núñez lanced the abscess. Within 48 hours out oozed a quart of accumulated blood. In a subsequent hemorrhage the Count lost another pint of blood. Packing the abscess cavity with gauze failed to stop bleeding. Drugs failed to stop it. Nothing seemed able to make the patient's blood clot. He was at the point of dying from hemophilia...
...steel, the Laughlins for culture. Founder Jones was already a bigwig in .he steel industry when Andrew Carnegie was a local telegraph boy. When Carnegie succeeded in delivering a message to Mr. "ones personally, Mr. Jones would tip him 25?. His son, Benjamin Franklin Jones Jr., was a crack steelman and J. & L.'s lead until his death in 1928. In his later years active command was in the hands of his first cousin, William Larimer Jones, regarded in his day as the ablest operating man in the industry. Benjamin Franklin Jones III and William Larimer Jones Jr., their...
Certain members of the Music Department are beginning to suspect that the monthly bell bedlam of Lowell House will weaken and crack the tower. Their suspicions, however, have so far failed to crack the calm of the House Janitor...