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...committee. . . . Your committee has kept your investigator in Washington, permitting him to do nothing ... has frittered away its scant appropriation . . . has attempted to discredit the record by representing that your authority is limited under the resolution. That resolution is immeasurably broader than the resolution which made a record that threw Vare and Lorimer out of the Senate. . . . Speaking of contempt, Senator, why do you refuse to proceed against Long's henchman, Seymour Weiss, treasurer of the Long racketeering machine, who as a witness treated your committee to all the insults and contemptuousness that could be handed out? . . . The women...
...critical 15th and 16th from the centre station. Now came the doubles, at stations Nos. 1, 2, 6 and 7. He powdered the first three pairs and moved to station No. 8, needing one to tie, two to win. As both targets fell in bits to earth he threw off his hat, called for his final, unnecessary bird and smashed that too, for a brilliant 98 and the Great Eastern title...
Their show was good enough to get the nominal support of some of the other political groups. But the important ones turned their backs. Some of the ABC men admitted their support of the de Cespedes government had been a mistake and threw in with the Junta. Other ABC men drove through Havana in automobiles bristling with machine-guns. One thousand joined the commissioned officers in the National Hotel. The strongest one-man organization in Cuba, the followers of bearded ex-President Mario G. Menocal, joined with the officers in demanding that the Junta appoint a President and Cabinet, someone...
...onto the ledge. It might have rested there comfortably, with dew to lick and foliage to nibble, until it got well enough to scramble back the way it had come. But Man was everywhere. Men gathered by hundreds along the path on the chasm's opposite bank. Men threw a threatening bridge straight across to the ledge. Worst of all, they descended terrifyingly from...
...Straus & Co. folded up last spring. All they remembered was that they had lost money in spite of Straus & Co.'s protestations of conservatism and good faith. When Nick Roberts came out of Tombs Court under $5,000 bail, a man shouted, "Here, do you want one?" and threw a handful of bonds...