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...suggested to Saavedra that a suitable candidate for President at the special elections in December would be Senor Hernando Siles, a diplomat. So tense was the situation that Saavedra did an unprecedented thing- he took the suggestion. Senor Siles will be President. And then Saavedra took another suggestion- he withdrew his brother's candidacy for Vice President...
...Undeterred, the brave savages withdrew, circled, charged again and again . . . from 4 a. m. till 10 a. m The last volley saw the Druses riding off carrying dead and wounded comrades. . . The Druses, with their faith in reincarnation, believe those they were obliged to leave mangles by modern weapons have lost their souls as well as their bodies. . . . There were no French casualties...
...opposes the Republican Party in a campaign as a Republican. Certainly party regularity must have something to do with it in a case like this." Anticipating his defeat in the primaries, Roy B. Wilcox, chosen by the regular Republicans, had filed as an independent; nevertheless he 'withdrew. The regular Republicans threw their support to one Edward F. Dithmar, who had not taken part in the primary but had filed as an independent Republican...
...Baltimore two young Chinese, dressed in department store clothes, entered a restaurant, ordered a meal of rice and soup. The cook, one Charley Lee, withdrew to prepare it. To the proprietor, who sat beaming behind his counter, one of the men beckoned with a rolled newspaper; he approached. When he had come to within a yard of the table, the fellow dropped his paper; the other fired. Lee rushed from the kitchen; the murderers were gone, his employer was dead. A bubble of blood from his lips incarnadined the newspaper...
...accident befell a little girl, Elna Barnes. Her father decided not to play. Macfarlane, who has been going to an occulist all year because his altering sight had effected his putting, found that he had to have his glasses changed. Brady, for reasons unmentioned, also withdrew. So of the four favorite sons, Macdonald Smith alone was left, and on him the know-it-alls fixed their hopes. Among his 261 competitors were such men as Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Leo Diegal...