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Augusto Cesar Sandino walked slowly through the white portico of Nicaragua's Presidential Palace and stepped into his car. His stomach was warm with the fine dinner his oldtime friend and fellow rebel, President Juan B. Sacasa, had given him. He was among friends: the father who had brought him up a Liberal, his brother Socrates, two of his favorite generals, Estrada and Umanzor, and the Minister of Agriculture, Sofonias Salvatierra, his host in Managua. From the Palace eminence on a dead volcano he could see all Managua lying flat under a pale moon, its two-story houses...
Died. Count Miyoji Ito, 76, wealthy conservative Japanese statesman; of stomach ulcers; in Tokyo. In the long bickering over the ratification of the London Naval Treaty in 1930 Count Ito lost to his enemy, Premier Hamaguchi. Japan signed and Count Ito, still a member of the Privy Council, went into virtual political retirement...
...crowded day. But she found time to save an old pal from committing suicide by taking him into her bed. Oliver found them together. Donka tried to patch it up, but Oliver had been hit too hard. Besides he was dying from an obscure stomach complaint. Operated on too late, he kept calling for Donka. When her picture was finished she hurried to him, but Oliver was dead...
...Other saintly patrons against physical ills: Giles (cripples), Erasmus (colic and cramps), Vitus (epilepsy, nervousness), Lawrence (lumbago), Benedict (poison), Timothy (stomach trouble), Apollonia (toothache), Anthony (pestilence), Catherine of Siena (headache), Thomas (blindness...
...independent Democrat named Francis Williams got 26,673. Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley topped the ticket with 48,752. Since Democrat Walmsley had no clear majority, Klorer was entitled to a run-off primary. But the Longster, a poor second against the massed votes of his opponents, had no stomach for another contest. Thus Semmes Walmsley, whose rough-&-ready politics were learned through a long apprenticeship with the Choctaw Club (New Orleans' Tammany), was conceded a second term as Mayor of the Crescent City...