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...banking his $736,000 share of profits, he fled the country when the Continental Trading Co. was investigated by the U. S. He refused to return to testify. Tax liens and penalties of $8,498,935.78 were piled up against him by the Government. Last week, he had to flee France or submit to detention by French officials until Marshal Callen should arrive to fetch...
...antagonism spread to other officers and then throughout the army. Eventually, after Deniken had suffered military reverses, he was obliged to flee to Constantinople, and the army chose Baron Wrangel as its leader by acclaim...
When the Law or a woman has pinioned a man, let him wriggle out and flee to Sidi-bel-Abbes, Algeria. From that headquarters of the French Foreign Legion he can go forth a bleu, with wages of six cents per month in his pocket, and no fear of extradition. His lot will be a sandy purgatory of heat, fever, mosquitoes, mangy beasts and tribesmen foes who fight like jackals-but there will be "no questions asked". . . . Such a life attracts not only fugitives, but honest youths athirst for adventure. Such a life attracted Bennett J. Doty of Biloxi, Miss...
Freshmen in Berkeley Oval yesterday leaned far out of crowded windows, watched with interest Latin Instructor G. M. Harper boot a football with classic toe, followed its course with eager eyes, saw the ball land amid flying glass upon an electric light globe, noted the miscreant flee before the arrival of a campus...
...capital of the Ukraine, with the Austrian and German armies, under whose auspices he took the lead in trying to separate that province from the rest of Russia. He not only promoted himself a general but also declared himself ruler of the Ukraine. He failed and was obliged to flee. Two years later he reappeared, this time under the Poles, becoming president of a short-lived Ukrainian republic. He played off the Poles against the Bolsheviki and the Bolsheviki against the Poles and, eventually, again fell from power, this time to flee to France, where he lived in Paris until...