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Four days after the Presidential order was issued the entire military escort of a passenger train proceeding through the State of Michoacan were killed when the armored escort car was dynamited...
...silk-topped patent leather button shoes, semi-formal overcoat with velvet collar. One hand picked up a cane; the other put a cigar in a mouth corner. The Brown Derby, above all, was set at an undefeated angle. Away streaked the baby-blue Rolls-Royce, minus any hooting police-escort. Cushioned snugly at Mr. Smith's 'elbows were Mr. Raskob and William L. Kenny, vacation playmates...
...amuse southern firemen. Last week at Sarasota, Fla., winter headquarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, he fed loaves of bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites at the Miami-Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Meanwhile, Republican newspaper editors were flaying with indignation a statement made by Governor Franklin...
...lurches. Another shows a scared young gentleman making a hasty escape from a roadster in which sits a sleek, lascivious wench. The young gentleman cries NO, NO! NOT THAT! A third displays a lady in taxicab whose face expresses explosive frenzy as she shouts at her indolent escort YOU'RE SO KIND TO ME, AND I'M SO TIRED OF IT ALL! Artist Arno painted these scenes in black writing ink with washes of lampblack. His lines are brisk, graceful. They grotesquely exaggerate his figures, deftly point his themes...
Poorest of South American republics, the country that gave the world the "Panama" hat gave the U.S. President-Elect a handsome reception. Motorboats swarmed out to surround and escort the Cleveland to her mooring. Some 50,000 of the populace packed the waterfront...