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...Cuban classmate, one Gonzalo de Quesada. When Quesada introduced him to Jose Julian Marti, known as "the Master" to U. S.-exiled Cuban revolutionaries, young Rubens caught fire from Marti's fervor, swore he would get in there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain. His own place in the epic Author Rubens keeps modestly choral: heroes of his tale are Poet Marti, Mulatto General Antonio Macéo, white-bearded, spectacled Máximo Gomez, Cuba herself...
...Treasury Mills are about of a size. His clothes are neat but distinctive. His hair is thinning on top. He carries his head tilted to one side. His public manners are easy, gracious. He makes a good forceful speech, never too long. He smokes cigarets. No blind partisan, he is respected by Republicans and Democrats alike lor his intelligence, his parliamentary fairness, his industry. Outside Congress: In Washington he lives modestly at The Highlands Apartment, also has a home at Americus. He is a relatively poor man, with little beside his Congressional salary, now cut from...
...President was determined to appoint a Democrat, thus making a majority of the R. F. C. board members of that party.* By turning R. F. C. control, at least nominally, over to his political opponents, the President hoped to silence campaign talk that the corporation was being used for partisan purposes...
...School Board (1914-17). No other famed Socialists, however, seriously contest Mr. Thomas' right to run for the Presidency. One who might, if he were ever divorced from his present job, is Daniel Webster Hoan, now serving his seventeenth year as Mayor of Milwaukee. As head of a non-partisan Socialist Administration, Mayor Hoan has made his city a shining exception in the gloom of municipal insolvency...
Oats in Gas Tank. Amid these partisan attempts to create a personality issue out of the Speaker, Pundit Walter Lippmann delivered his Olympian opinion in the New York Herald Tribune...