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...genuinely surprised to find that I was not colored. Others were dumbfounded to hear that the Boers were quite civilized, that I was a typical Boer. Most people seem to think that lions and tigers are shot as easily in Capetown as cashiers and jewelers in New York.-Eric H. Louw, Commissioner for the Government of the Union of South Africa...
...note for $100,000 to help campaign finances. Mayor Kline of Pittsburgh was questioned about a speech he was alleged to have made to city employes declaring that if they did not vote for Pepper they would be separated from the city payroll. This he vehemently denied. Colonel Eric Fisher Wood, Chairman of the Pepper Committee, admitted that a letter favoring Pepper had been published by his committee which purported to be signed by William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor but was a forgery. He said that the publicity department had received it from an unknown source...
Shortly before the final adjournment of the Council was moved, Senhor Mello Franco strode in like the ghost of Banquo, dabbed his eyes with an ever damper handkerchief, handed to League Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond a cablegram. . . . The cable conveyed in 5,000 words the resignation of Brazil from her nonpermanent Council seat. The Council, not to be stampeded, refused to accept the resignation, held that the Assembly of the League is alone empowered...
Sued for Divorce. General Eric von Ludendorff, "the brains of old Paul von Hindenburg," now active in German: Fascist politics, by Frau Ludendorff, daughter of a wealthy dairyman; in Berlin. She was said to have annoyed the General by incessant smoking. Frau Dr. Martha yon Kemnitz, ultra-Fascist publicist, was mentioned last week as his potential fiancee...
...Eric the Red; Icelandic chief and settler of Greenland; also called "Leif the Lucky." Blown out of his course while returning from Norway in 1000 A. D. to Christianize Greenland, he reached a far-western land where "self-sown" wheat grew, and vines. He called it Vineland, later exploring it, wintering there-in southern Nova Scotia...