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...fiery old man of 69 sat in the library of his home in Los Angeles, with a newspaperman before him, a lawyer by his side and a stenographer at hand. The newspaperman had come at his request and the stenographer at the newspaperman's request, and the lawyer was apparently there to protest against the proceeding and give advice on its progress. In brief, Edward L. Doheny was about to tell his story of the notorious Naval Reserve oil leases...
General Pangalos and Admiral Hajikiriakos forthwith occupied Athens. There was some spectacular firing but no bloodshed and no damage. The Provisional President was permitted to request ex-Premier Papanastasiou to form a Government, but as his party, the Radical Republicans of the Democratic Union, declined to support him, he early abandoned his Cabinetmaking attempt. A government was forthwith formed by General Pangalos, who became Premier and Minister of War with Admiral Hajikiriakos as Minister of Marine...
French, for their own safety, to request the relief of the Negro division from the fighting line. Some 30 Negro officers were involved in this running away. Five-the clearest cases and supposed leaders of the movements-only five, had been selected for trial by the law officers of the Second Army. A court martial, composed of officers from another, a white division, had been ordered for this purpose...
...found the Representative in a downtown building only partially dressed. In court, the Representative called his accuser a liar and, according to the judge, used profanity. So he was sentenced to ten hours in jail and a $10 fine. The jail sentence was reduced to four hours at the request of his wife and physician...
...sending this anonymously because if you are kind enough to answer my request, I intend to send questions in fairly regular. If I gave my own name, my friends might be amazed at such ignorance in a college graduate and might be tempted to ridicule me for the simplicity of some of my questions and I fear ridicule far worse than severe bodily punishment. "MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE" TIME has no room for a Question and Answer Column. TIME has never encouraged question-asking, but has customarily made cheerful and courteous answer by mail. Nor is it necessary that the questioner enclose...