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...revolution against the then President of Peru (who bore the good Nordic name of George E. Billingshurst) three fingers of his left hand were shot away. In 1921 in an unsuccessful revolution against President Leguia his right arm was crippled and part of his skull crushed. Singlehanded this pocket wildcat silenced a machine-gun nest, received 14 more bullet wounds. Exiled in 1922, he filled in his spare time by serving in the Spanish Army in Morocco against the Riff. Last week he flew from Arequipa to Lima to take charge of the government. At the flying field, cheering followers...
Agile for his 53 years, nose-wiping Mr. Takahashi sprang from bed, dressed hastily in a rusty black European suit. With a few deft snips of a pair of shears he transformed the morning paper into a pile of paper handkerchiefs which he stuffed into one pocket, also pocketing a large hand mirror. Round his neck he hung a placard of a Japanese schoolboy with running nose. In brilliant ideographs down the side ran the legend: THIS PICTURE SHOULD NOT BE A SIGNBOARD FOR JAPAN. BLOW YOUR NOSE. OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE LAUGHED AT BY FOREIGNERS. Humbly Reporter Okuyama followed...
...farm board and the Administration's farm relief program, in bitter contrast to his 1928 campaigning for Herbert Hoover. The acreage-reduction scheme was belittled on the ground that a smaller crop at a higher price wo'uld not put more money in the planter's pocket, that a 100 acres of 60? wheat is the same as 50 acres of $1.20 wheat. A more captious, unfair cry was that Chairman Legge, onetime head of International Harvester Co., wanted to reduce U. S. farm production so foreign husbandmen could make big crops, buy more U. S. agricultural...
Britain's Gandhite. Suddenly, Congressman Snell and every one else in the chamber beheld an ascetic looking Laborite with high cheekbones and owlish glasses leap up from his bench and, pulling a queer white cap from his pocket, clap it on his head. What did that mean...
...fingers were the brothers; through school in France and Germany; through Oxford; through their London apprenticeship (Tom-law; Jack-engineering) until they met lovely artist Molly Prescott. To her, Tom became engaged. Then the War broke. Under fire Tom discovered Molly's picture in Jack's tunic pocket-("Keep me with you, always, and I'll try to keep you safe"). Renouncing all Pythian affection Tom nearly slugged Jack, refused henceforth to speak to him. When Jack was wounded in the Big Drive, Tom was mortally injured in the act of rescuing him. Jack returned to Molly...