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...predicament. One of the first was Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald, the ubiquitous influence peddler who has popped up in half a dozen tax probes. The black-marketeering and tax fraud charges were dropped a few months after Grunewald intervened. By now, Senator Bridges was also in the act. Soon afterward, the lien on Klein's assets was eased to allow him to resume doing business...
...Soon afterward, naval historians began to doubt Cox's guilt, wondered if he had been made a scapegoat for a sorry U.S. defeat. Arguments in the third lieutenant's favor: the Chesapeake was fresh from refitting, manned by a green crew. Just before she sailed out to meet the Shannon, many of her men were drunk. The court-martial testimony showed that Cox, who was 23, fought his guns bravely until the crews deserted; then, cutlass in hand, he rushed up on deck to repel the boarders. Cox probably did not realize he was in command when...
Friends who saw her afterward recall that Mrs. Roosevelt - a stoic who feels deeply that one pays bills on time, keeps engagements on the minute, and does not give way to emotion - paced the floor with tears squeezing slowly from between her eyelids. She was not crying for herself...
...police arrived soon afterward, burst open the door of the old house and picked their way through a jungle of cobwebs, worm-ridden period furniture, a hall jammed with bottles of curdled milk and old clothes piled higher than a man's shoulders. A menagerie of budgereegahs, canaries, pigeons, dogs and cats had added their meed to the midden. Cowering in a corner, covered only by a tattered red blanket, hunched the man who had screamed at the window. His matted beard reached his knees. The nails of his toes and fingers curled in uncut proliferation. The police soon...
...would have it, they frightened the French too-right back across the Pyrenees, after one of the most brilliant campaigns of modern times. Not long afterward, Napoleon was sent packing for good. General Wellesley got his dukedom and his niche in history. The rank & file, according to a custom old when Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, got their prize money-and a muster into oblivion. Yet destiny for once had preserved a rich archive of the forgotten...