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Mute forefingers pointed. General Fragoso with two of his staff crossed the library, entered the President's office, gently closed the door. Minute later the voice of dauntless old Washington (named for George Washington) Luis was heard through the panel: "The least thing I value is my life-I WILL NOT SURRENDER! Leave this room...
Boston. Edward Jackson Holmes, director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, paid $35,000 for two tiny wood panel paintings, supposedly by Giambattista Cima de Conegliano. They were proven fakes. For his two Coneglianos and $85,000 he was offered a Velasquez portrait of a man, which hung proudly in the museum for several weeks. A fake also, it is now ignominiously in the cellar...
...read in the papers of disputes, ever more violent, between Lena Ltd. and the Soviet Government over operating details of the concession. Gradually the rupture grew so wide as to demand arbitration. Thereupon, under Article 90 of the Lena Goldfields Concession Agreement of 1925, the Soviet Government chose a panel of six German professors, and Lena made ready to pick one of these as chairman of the Arbitral Board. When she had looked over all the six professors carefully Lena picked Dr. Stutzer...
...instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities. The westward flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark, radio equipped, had a 650 h. p. Hispano-Suiza motor and a top speed close to 160 m. p. h. Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically every known aid to navigation. Yet even with weather conditions unusually good, with tail winds for much of the way, with such crack airmen as Coste & Bellonte at the controls, the Question Mark was forced...
...committed and solved in the first chapter. The rest of the book takes up the life-story of each of the twelve jurors in the murder trial, starting with each man's birth and ending with his opening the mailed summons for jury duty. It is a varied panel: an Irish contractor, a Greek restaurant proprietor, a commercial artist, an Italian grocer, the manager of a carburetor factory, a millionaire, a German shopkeeper, a certified public accountant, a garage owner, a Jewish garment-manufacturer, an ex-soldier, a failure. The last chapter tells about the killer, his preposterous motive...