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...Time!" That even Carol was caught unaware by the events which shaped his return last week was revealed at Paris by his aide Captain Paul Dimitrescu who accompanied him to Munich. The captain said that Carol, responding to a telegram from his mother Dowager Queen Marie, had packed up to go and meet her for a "family council" at Sigmaringen in Germany, home of Carol's cousin Prince Friedrich, "head of the Catholic branch of the House of Hohenzollern...
...full "don't shoot" story: a newshawk heard two women talking, who thought they had heard some one else talking about a telegram from Governor Moody telling Capt. Frank Hamer of the Texas Rangers to protect Negro George Hughes, but not to fire on the would-be lynchers. The court of inquiry "is convinced that this report was instigated by a person in Sherman for the purpose of stirring up the mob." The court blamed the newshawk for lack of diligence in verifying the rumor, which Associated Press and other agencies circulated widely. TIME'S story clearly stated...
Slays for Slaps. A party in the Manhattan boarding house of a Mrs. Mabel McGowan ended in a shooting scrape. Headlined the New York Telegram: LANDLADY SLAYS HOST. Mrs. McGowan sued for $50,000, was denied it last week when the Telegram proved a typographical error had changed "slaps" to "slays...
...Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore, habitually hatless, armed with a malacca stick, buttonholing or being buttonholed by this statesman, that sportsman. Afternoons find him on the sands of La Playa beach; midnight, in the two-story structure at Industria 77, erstwhile Casa Publica, now the plant of the Post and Telegram...
...President Wilson's Wartime Committee on Public Information; who after the War was Public Relations Counsel for President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia; who with publicity man Edward L. Bernays, conducted a publicity campaign for the independence of Lithuania. The Havana Post and its evening companion, the Telegram, offered an outlet for Byoir's energy, his knack for diplomacy, his natural urge for influence. He bought the Post and Telegram from Rafael R. Govin, publisher of El Mundo, principal Cuban daily. The same day, says legend, he refused an offer and a profit of $250,000 from Lord...