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...religious troubles of Mexico had anything to do with this," said able Agent Hopkins, "I believe it was simply an attempt of the 'outs' to get 'in.'" General Estrada, unable to furnish $20,000 personal bail, languished with the rest of his "army" in the jail at San Diego last week, charged with "organizing a military expedition against a friendly country." Bland Exchange. Between the Archbishop of Mexico and President Calles there passed last week an exchange of notes more amiable in tone than any previous pronouncement by the Episcopate or Administration since enforcement...
null not a subscriber to TIME, but I am going to be one as soon as I am released, or before. A friend of mine since I have been in jail, kept me regularly supplied with your wonderful newsmagazine. After reading TIME, June 14, and seeing what you had to say concerning the reception of the Crown Prince of Sweden at Washington, D. C., I hoped .that you would say something about Louis Borno, the so-called and self-styled president of Haiti and the reception tendered him by President Coolidge.* But I have received your issue of June...
...Negro. Fool, he had slain Sheriff Dooley. Now they had found him. He whimpered as the hounds leapt about him, yelped. He cowered in the cotton field. Guns spat. He shrieked, groaned, died. Little dun dogs closed in, sniffed eagerly. At Wytheville, Va., last week gentry stormed the county jail; shot Raymond Bird, 31, Negro; hanged his black body to a tree...
...Wops ............Italians Bohunks .............Hungarians and Slavs Polacks ..........Poles Hunkies ............Hungarians Dagoes .........Italians *Later, in jail, Vanzetti fumbled with the fretwork of English idiom, his squinting pen articulating the letter below: ". . . Innocent; I am so. I did not spittel a drop of blood or steal a cent in my life. A little knowledge of the past: a sorrowful experience of life itself had give to me some idears very different from those of many other umane beings. But I wish to convince my fellowman that only with virtue and honesty is possible for us to find a little happiness...
...Korean tribunal sentenced Missionary C. A. Haysmeir to three years in jail because he had painted "Thief" on the cheeks of a little native boy who had sinned. The painting was done with silver nitrate, permanent. All good Seventh Day Adventists deplored the work of their missionary, dismissed him from service. The incident created a great furore in Korean and Asiatic circles; even in the U. S. people noted forcibly the words: Seventh Day Adventists. History. A few New Englanders, formerly devout First-Day Adventists, began in 1844 to observe the seventh day of the week (Saturday) as the Sabbath...