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The final break with the President, so often foretold, came at last on a by-issue. The Senate investigating committee requested authority for its representative to go through such files of the Department of Justice as it might designate. The Attorney General refused the request on the grounds that it...
*Missolonghi is a hot, dusty little fishing hamlet on the north of the Gulf of Corinth. It was there that Byron died during the dramatic defense against the overwhelming forces of Osman Pasha, a defense that lasted two yeart and fired the imagination of all Europe.
Such pictures certainly ought to be profitable. But in these jaded times one ought perhaps to remember that the Mayor and other distinguished officials are not without distinguished precedents. One might recall the original nonesuch South Seas Company itself. This, it seems, was formed in the year 1711, for the...
C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to President Coolidge: "It became known that John Fox, novelist and one-time husband of Fritzi Scheff, was a boyhood friend of mine in Virginia, that we often went fishing, that I am said to be the original of a character in The Trail of the...
One curious result of liquor smuggling and bootlegging activities along the Atlantic coast between Boston and Baltimore has been a marked rise in the retail price for fresh fish of almost all kinds because fishermen and boats here found rum-running so much more profitable than fishing, that adequate supplies...