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...week before Ambassador Morrow's return, five men stood against a wall in Queretaro. Mexico, were riddled by a firing squad. They had intended dynamiting the train on which Mr. Morrow left the country...
Louis Meyer of Los Angeles, victor in 1928, was second. His fellow townsman, Bill Spence, described a tragic arc out of his Duesenberg when it slithered into a wall. His was the first Indianapolis fatality since the 1919 race...
...this reason particularly happy from the decorative point of view. The adoption of a palette of browns and golds, high in value, but low in intensity, harmonizes perfectly with the brownish yellow tone of the marble background. The paintings, therefore, keep their place and beautify the wall without seeming to leap from it. There is now needed, to complete the scheme, some, enrichment for the rectangular panel above the doorway, but this, it is expected, will be supplied by an inscription...
...that the Editor may feel that he has at least one supporter (humble the he may be), in his stand with his "back against the wall," may I venture a word...
...weeks before he sat down to this luncheon, Publisher Hearst had sat the President down pretty hard on the subject of Prohibition, in his national broadside against the Hoover speech in Manhattan to the Associated Press, which Publisher Hearst called "a blank cartridge fired against a blank wall" (TIME...