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...followers, reported him dead a score of times but never laid hands on him. U. S. newspapers uniformly called him "bandit." But what Sandino wanted, and what he finally got in January 1933, was the withdrawal of all U. S. Marines from Nicaragua. When they left, he quit fighting and took over a large part of the Department of Segovia for his men. His old friend Sacasa, elected President, promised him $1,000 a month to get his farms and mines started. Sandino, a great hater, still had one open enemy, General Moncada. And Moncada's nephew is General...
...72nd birthday Charles Michael Schwab revealed that he was "lightening his load" by retiring as president of Manhattan's Whist Club and "only spending several hours a day" as board chairman of Bethlehem Steel. "But I'm not through playing bridge nor have I quit the Bethlehem Steel Co." said he. "I will always get a kick out of cards, and as for the Bethlehem Company-that is my monument...
...literary drudgeries was to report the debates in Parliament for a London magazine. Though he visited the House only once, often made up the speeches entire, readers liked them, called for more. When he discovered that his reports were fooling the public into taking them as genuine, Johnson quit...
Besides investigators Mr. Hopkins keeps busy a set of accountants who have set up books for state relief and CWA projects, supply him with complete reports of every cent spent in every state. He was quite candid in speaking of graft to Congressional inquirers: "On work relief we may have an occasional padded payroll. . . . I think in the main [Civil Works projects] are three or four times as good as the projects under relief. . . . Political interference has been a difficulty. I would not say it is serious but it has been a difficulty. I have quit getting mad about...
...lack of opponents. Softspoken, sleek-haired, he coaches smooth and deceptive team play, foxy shifts from man-to-man to zone defenses. In spare time he studies sculpture, has made three figures. Says he: "I mold my players just like I mold my clay." East. In 1908 Harvard quit the Eastern Intercollegiate League in a huff. This season it returned, and so far has lost every conference game played. Princeton, an early favorite, slumped after the Christmas holidays. Most of its first-stringers are seniors playing their third season and apparently bored with the game. Tied for first place...