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Governor Persons shut down Phenix City's bars and gambling halls, offered a reward for the arrest of Patterson's killer, and went up to the county courthouse for a showdown with Phenix City's myopic law-enforcement officers. He warned them: "This is the end of the line." Patterson's son, John, said he would "carry out the program of my father," run for attorney general, but many persons in Phenix City were badly frightened. Alton V. Foster, manager of the Chamber of Commerce, quit his job and got ready to move his family...
Quiet Question. All Arbenz' Communist support might do him little good, in a showdown, if his army deserted him. How stood the army? Arbenz had fattened it with increased pay and had given his officers elegant clubs and low-price commissaries. He had trimmed out the despised "line" (i.e., up from the ranks) officers and replaced them with fellow military-school men. The officers were glad to get new equipment, even Red arms -but they had little use for Communism...
This deepened Recto's dissatisfaction, and a showdown became unavoidable...
...Communist-controlled unions of laborers and farmers, thereby bringing on a bloody civil war. Tribuna Popular published photographs of strapping farmhands over captions that said they would "take up arms if necessary to defend the fatherland against Yankee monopolists and interventionists." The threatening implication was clear: in a showdown, the pro-Communist regime will depend for survival on guns in the irresponsible hands of its most loyal supporters...
Into Albany's high-vaulted Washington Avenue Armory last week streamed 2,000 New York Central Railroad stockholders, primed for the showdown in the long and dirty fight for control of the road. Amid the popping of flashbulbs, President William White strode into the hall. After him came his archrival and pretender to the job of running the Central, Robert R. Young. Both men had come up from Manhattan on a special stockholders' train, had carefully avoided each other as they and their cohorts went about handshaking, passing out campaign buttons, and politicking for proxies...