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Still the Porra did not rest, nor did an anti-Machado terrorist organization known as ABC. On Dec. 30 some member of ABC shot and severely wounded Sergeant Rafael Castro of the secret police, a Machado bravo who has been accused of several political murders...
...indemnity for the fatal shooting of two Mexican youths by Oklahoma deputy sheriffs last year; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Recessed for three days over Christmas after Speaker Garner failed to muster a quorum. Members failing to return after the recess were threatened with arrest by the House Sergeant-at-Arms...
...authors like to give themselves plenty of room. Good German Author Arnold Zweig* herewith puts out the first volume of his War epic. Volumes 2 and 4 (Education before Verdun, The Crowning of a King') are still to come. Volume 3 is the already-published The Case of Sergeant Grischa, one of the few good War books, often compared with the world-best-selling All Quiet on the Western Front, sometimes preferred...
Readers of Sergeant Grischa will remember Hero Bertin as the intellectual military clerk whose sympathy for Grischa was horrified, heartfelt and ineffectual. Here Bertin is shown in palmier days. At the outbreak of the War he was a pale but ambitious youth, a promising author with no money, living in blissful sin in Berlin with Lenore Wahl. Her family, rich Potsdam bankers, looked down their noses at Bertin, not because he was a Jew (they were that too) but because he had no money and because he was regarded as unsound by the Junkers, whom they worshipped. Unbeknownst...
Stiffly the Spanish Colonial Office announced: "There is considerable conjecture as to the motive. The Sergeant's record had been excellent...