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...good job as literary editor of London's weekly Spectator when he saw a notice in the Times's "agony column" about a forthcoming expedition to central Brazil for which he volunteered and was accepted. Avowed purpose of the expedition was to ascertain the mysterious fate of Colonel Fawcett, British explorer lost in the Matto Grosso with two other men in 1925. Leader of the party was one Major "George Lewy Pingle" (Fleming does not give his right name), U. S. resident of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and reputedly an experienced explorer. Fleming's early suspicions of Pingle...
Valera. He dug up a newspaper report that O'Dufty had said in a speech in County Donegal that "Mr. De Valera and his party murdered Kevin O'Higgins and Michael Collins and de Valera is now entitled to the fate he gave Collins and O'Higgins". Since those two Irish patriots were assassinated, Mr. de Valera called General O'Duffy up for trial before a military tribunal on charges of "incitement to murder the President." ( Indignantly General O'Duffy replied: " I emphatically deny that I, by word or implication or in any other...
...Catholic conference on Industrial Problems, President George Hermann Derry of Detroit's Marygrove College (Catholic) had said: "A few international Jews hold a stranglehold on the world supply of gold that enables them to decide the destiny of nations, to make and unmake cabinets, and to rule the fate of mankind...
...least a few courses this fall. Thus far it appears that in only one course has such action been newly taken. Perhaps it was presumptuous--or merely fatuous--to hope that the discussion aroused last May would have a more fortunate outcome than the oblivion which has been the fate of the many previous pleas on this subject. Daily Princetonian...
Thus for the third time in three years did an Alabama jury last week decide the fate of 20-year-old Negro Heywood Patterson. Accused with eight other Negroes of raping two white girls in a freight car near Scottsboro, he had twice been saved from the electric chair by judicial appeal. The first conviction was set aside by the U. S. Supreme Court last year and a new trial ordered (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). The second was voided by the judge at the second trial who claimed the verdict was unwarranted by the evidence. This time at Decatur Patterson...