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...around Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek are a "gang," in the same sense that the New Deal or the Ohio Republican machine or the Cliveden set have been gangs. These are not sharp, rugged characters; these are reflections of the Generalissimo's many faces. But they are tough babies...
...small boy he adored "an uncouth youth" named Hoggie Unglebower, a juvenile gang leader in West Baltimore. Hoggie was no Lothario, "he was actually almost a Trappist in his glandular life," but he was a master at killing rats and murdering cats. Hoggie fell from his pedestal the awful day his glands began to function, and Mencken transferred his loyalty to an instructive Shetland pony called Frank...
...former U.S. Ambassador Alexander W. Weddell informed the Fran co regime he had word that a "hostile" demonstration of students was to be held before the U.S. Embassy. "No extra guards were provided, however, and even the two usually stationed in front of the Embassy were absent when the gang came up. . . ." They booed the U.S., threw stones at the Ambassador and at the U.S. emblem over the Embassy doorway. At a dinner that night, Weddell agreed with other Americans in Madrid that he had no choice but to demand an apology and to ask for his recall...
...table; his fondness for this potent Italian apéritif still remains unabated. In 1925, disguised as Ashton-Wolfe of the Sûreté, he took to frequenting the milieu, the sinister district centering about the rue de Lappe. As 'Papa' Thernardier, he organized the gang that stole a towel from the Hotel Claridge and defaced the blotters at the American Express Co. A démarche from the Quai d'Orsay shortly forced him to flee Paris...
...moral house-cleaning, it should be a valuable book, entirely aside from its qualities as pure entertainment. Wylie claims to have been breathing the same brand of fire for the last twenty or so years, predicting the future importance of bombing and the black-hearted intentions of Hitler's gang, but limited, unfortunately, by the whims of editors to writing minor fiction and articles on fishing. This book represents, then, the eruption of a long repressed critical volcano in which every sacred American institution from Mom down to bingo comes in for a baptism of fire. What distinguishes it from...