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...from being definitive. "To track down the facts," says he despairingly, "required the diligence not so much of a writer as of a detective." Zaharoff has not simply eluded publicity; he has barricaded his devious trail with piles of red herrings. Though Author-Detective Neumann found many & many a document missing or unobtainable, most witnesses untrustworthy or disingenuous, he has succeeded in piecing together the sinister tale of a completely irresponsible, destructive career, in showing that where there was so much international smoke there must have been some Greek fire. No coldly lucid exposition but an avowed attempt...
Then, too, there are the scales, dagger, and document used by Edmund Keane in his portrayal of Shylock in the "Merchant of Venice," a candle snuffer used by Ellen Terry, and a bronze statue of Sarah Bernhardt presented to her by the magician Houdini...
...that Franklin Roosevelt ever signs such trade agreements. They are signed by the Secretary of State, authorized to do so under a document called a "Full Power." The customary place of signing is the cold, funereally decorated diplomatic reception room of the State Department. There Cordell Hull has signed agreements with Cuba, Haiti, Belgium. Sweden, Brazil, Colombia.† But because Canada is a far better trade prospect than all those countries combined and because Franklin Roosevelt loves nothing better than a sudden spectacular coup such as a ten-day treaty-hatching, the scene of the signing was transferred...
...record breaking trips such as the one attested to in the enclosed document, his car always carried the famed 348 plates created with his earlier character...
...with the rank of captain. His first literary success came during the War. when he wrote a story about the first attack of the tanks as seen by a German artillery commander. It sounded so authentic that the censor would not pass it, believing it a captured document...