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...last summer Samuel ("Sam") Zemurray of New Orleans strode belligerently into a room at No. 1 Federal Street, Boston, where the directors of potent, far-flung United Fruit Co. were holding a meeting. Down on the long table in front of his old enemy, President Victor Macomber Cutter, he flung a handful of proxies. Said he: "You've been --ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." The Bostonian directorate was profoundly and properly shocked. Nevertheless, before they adjourned they had created a new office- Managing Director in Charge of Operations-and elected...
...lunching with Secretary of State Stimson. Chief Usher Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover tiptoed into the dining room. Into the President's ear he whispered the news: "Mr. Coolidge has just died of heart failure." After a stunned moment, the President pushed back his chair, laid down his napkin, strode to his office. There he hastily dispatched a special message to Congress, issued a proclamation for 30 days of public mourning. Within five minutes, down to half-staff came the White House flag. Down came the flags of Washington, of the nation...
Into a University of Oklahoma fraternity house, one midnight three weeks ago, strode six burly students in black robes with black hoods bearing the letters D.D.M.C. They aroused an 18-year-old sophomore. "Come with us, Bill Stephens," intoned a leader darkly. Student Stephens stumbled from his bed. Outside it was 19° Fahrenheit. In his pajamas he was escorted to a field three miles from the University town of Norman. There the black-robes lashed Student Stephens ten times across the back with a three-quarter-inch rope. Then they gave him an overcoat, a pair of boots, told...
Then had come the Chicago convention. Mr. Raskob had been shoved to one side as this good-natured, smiling man now sitting across the table from him strode out on the Democratic stage, captured the convention, nominated his man for President, took over the national chairmanship, scrapped the fine Raskob machine and set his own running as the official party organization. These events had left Mr. Raskob not bitter-John Raskob is a sportsman -but chagrinned, dismayed, hurt. Since June he had kept his distance from Chairman Farley and the Roosevelt bandwagon...
...place on German soil since the Fatherland became a Republic in 1919. King George, who hides his German light under a bushel and has changed his name to Windsor, was not there. Neither were any of his sons. But His Majesty's first cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, strode up the aisle in the tight scarlet of a British guardsman. Deposed Kaiser Wilhelm was represented by his grandson Prince Wilhelm, in field grey topped by a steel helmet. Two most exalted shadows came in person. They were mystic, crystal-gazing Ferdinand, a Coburg who abdicated as Tsar of Bulgaria...