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...with no clients. He caught the eye of Clarence Darrow, who has saved many a rascal's neck, was hired as Lawyer Darrow's assistant for $20 a day. Princeton made Struggler Mahaffie an instructor in jurisprudence. Woodrow Wilson made him solicitor to the Department of the Interior. Warren Gamaliel Harding made him attorney to the U. S. Railroad Administration. Then he became director of the I. C. C.'s finance bureau. At Kingfisher College (Okla.), when he was graduated in 1905, he was a stout footballer. A Rhodes scholarship and St. John's College, Oxford...
...three friends on a two-year cruise of the world. To their astonishment the Fleischmann party found signs of life ashore, discovered the abandoned camp of three shipwrecked sailors whose yawl West Wind sailed from San Diego last December. A note stated that the castaways had struck into the interior 48 hr. earlier in search of food because they had exhausted the supply of coconuts near the beach, and that they would return about Nov. 4. The Camargo circled the island, firing her one-pound gun, blowing her whistle, got no response from shore. Then Mr. Fleischmann radioed...
...that time it was announced that because of "a fresh and greater lack of tranquillity in the capital" the entire Cabinet had offered their resignations and General Calles had consented to emerge from his retirement and accept the posts of Minister of War and Marine and Minister of the Interior...
First ministers to resign were the four Generals in the Cabinet: Joaquin Amaro (Minister of War) ; Lazaro Cardenas (Interior) ; Saturnino Cedillo (Agriculture); Juan Andreu Almazan (Communications). Able Finance Minister Luis Montes de Oca and the other civilians resigned some hours later, but rumors persisted that they would soon go back to their posts. It seemed evident that yet another military revolution had been brewing, a brew chilled by canny General Calles before it could boil over. Over the cafe tables it was insisted that the father of this military miscarriage was General Joaquin Amaro, a cyclopean full-blooded Tarascan Indian...
...Mack Hunter Partridge, 48, an interior decorator of Oklahoma City, conceived a United Jamaica Ginger Paralysis Victims organization. Last week his organization had some 30.000 members. Each had donated $1 or so for a fight fund. The fight is to be against the Federal Food & Drug Administration. U. S. Senators . and Representatives are being influenced to investigate the Food & Drug...