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...business headquarters in Pittsburgh. A member of this group and a good friend of Senator Reed is Cyrus E. Woods,* who was recently nominated for the Interstate Commerce Commission by , President Coolidge. Senator Reed was busily bestirring himself to secure Mr. Woods' confirmation in the Senate, when the hawk-eyed New York World intervened and thwacked him editorially last week...
...only that ugly Osman Digna* spent his boyhood and adolescence helping his parents sell slaves. The Digna family was very rich. In 1882 the British again forbade slave-trading. The Dervish Mahdi proclaimed a Holy War and Osman Digna, brown and skinny, with an evil face, round shoulders, a hawk nose, joined the rebellion, achieved a title "Emir of the Dervish of God." He beat General Baker at Tokar. He fought General Gordon at Khartum and Kitchener at Omdurman. Three times he was reported dead. He came to life again. With his brown spearmen he broke the British square...
...Habichtsburg ("Hawk's Castle") stood anciently upon a bluff near the confluence of the Rhine and Aar. From it the later Royal and Imperial House of Habsburg took its name almost 1,000 years ago. Once Holy Roman Emperors, at various later periods Emperors of Austria, Kings of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Spain and finally Emperors of Austria-Hungary, this potent family reached its apogee during the 68-year reign of the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary (born 1830, ascended 1848, died 1916). Last week the Hungarian press blazed with rumors that a kinsman of the "Grand Old Emperor...
William Sowden Sims, retired Rear Admiral: "Sitting peacefully in my home at Newport, R. I., last week, I was startled by a sudden crash at a window beside me. I leaped to my feet, ready for the worst. Upon the floor amid jagged splinters of glass lay a hawk as big as a Rhode Island...
...peril from the Chippewas, and so relentlessly did he insist that she, despairing, sent for her true love to come back from the war. Home came Chatonska galloping over the plains only to be branded as a deserter, exiled. And Winona, beaten and wedded against her will to the hawk-nosed stranger, jumped to her death from a lonely rock...