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...cellar of the Cuban Embassy at Washington. General Carlos Garcia Velez rummaged through the last dusty stack of state documents. Then he mopped his dirty forehead, admitted failure in his search. For weeks, General Garcia Velez had been looking for the original Message to Garcia, made famed by the late Elbert Hubbard. In 1898, he knew his father, the Rebel Chieftain Calixto Garcia, received a momentous message from President McKinley asking his aid against the Spaniards. Like Writer Hubbard, General Carlos Garcia Velez was sure that it had been a written document and that Col. Andrew Summers Rowan had "sealed...
Equally wistful was another unsworn in the Senator, Rush Dew Holt. He sat bemused in the back of the chamber. Only one thing stood in the way of his casting votes in the body to which the people of West Virginia elected him - the U. S. Constitution. That old document says inflexibly: No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of 30 years...
Possessors of the document were warned not to reveal the booklet's contents "to any newspaper, as all news of this trial has been suppressed by order of court." There followed in strict legal form the record of a case in which one John Doe, tramp, was tried for the "kidnap and murder" of a 20-month-old child named Charles A. Limberg Jr. on the night of March 1, 1932 near Hoaxwell, N. J. Attorney for the defense convinced a jury that the child had wandered out of his house of his own accord, could have died...
...anyone familiar with Soviet trials the document offered as Assassin Nicolaev's confession bore earmarks of labored composition by the Gay-pay-oo. It confessed that an unspecified foreign consul† gave Nicolaev 5,000 rubles and offered to put him in touch with Great Red Exile Leon Trotsky. "From Capitalistic darkness," editorialized the official newsorgan Pravda, "comes the stench which Kirov's murderers breathed!" According to Pravda, the leaders of the Trotsky faction accused in the case are "prostituted scoundrels, arrant blackguards, cowards, traitors, bankrupt politicians, deserters, outcasts of the human race and thrice accursed...
...from White Sulphur Springs scurried Charles Bismark Ames, chairman of Texas Corp., bearing a copy of a Recovery program drafted by 90 U. S. tycoons (see p. 10). Into the White House he rushed eagerly, expecting to present his document at once to the President. Instead Pat McKenna, Presidential switchman, shunted him in to see Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. The President, said Mr. Mclntyre, just had too many appointments to see Mr. Ames that day. Perhaps Mr. Ames could stay over a day or two? Mr. Ames could not. So he left his program with Secretary Mclntyre...