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...lead the unsuccessful Gibara revolt against Machado in 1931. The other three commissioners were a retired banker and ABC member, spectacled Porfirio Franco; Lawyer Jose Miguel Irizarri, and the professor of penal law at Havana University, Guillermo Portela. The five partitioned the posts of government, each to his own talent: the doctor for Secretary of Public Instruction & Sanitation; the law professor for Secretary of State and Justice; the editor for Secretary of the Interior, War and Navy; the banker for Secretary of Finance; the lawyer whose hobby was land division for Secretary of Public Works & Agriculture...
There was a breath of threat when he said: "It is easy to say 'no,' and if that is the program and we want the Government to do our banking, what is to become of our high-priced bank talent? The office boy can say 'no' and the note teller can collect the notes if they are good...
...political views, I believe, as did Jefferson, that we must annul certain privileges "and instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society to make way for an aristocracy of virtue and talent." . . . EUGENE S. DANIELL...
...improve with the years, but most writers, after they have passed middle age, do not. The transformation of generous talents into sere opinionatedness is a recurrent phenomenon each generation recognizes, but only in its predecessors. Authoress Gale, no ten-talent writer, still possesses the tenderness of her youth, but it has grown a little mushy, auntly sentimental. Practice makes pat and Authoress Gale knows better than ever how to put her gentle, everyday stories together. Some of them...
...huge success of the novel If Winter Comes caused its shy author, Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson, to flee precipitately from England to the Balearic Islands. The success of Author Hutchinson's latest tome, The Soft-Spot, a painfully mannered and prolix dissection of an Englishman with a talent for sponging, should cause him no such embarrassment whatever. Stephen Wain developed the habit of living off his half-brother Maxwell, a wealthy explorer, when they shared diggings in Bayswater, where Stephen studied architecture. Later, as a practicing architect, he was too obliging to examine closely the shoddy materials his friends...