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Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, presented last week to the Library of Congress a large collection of 16th Century manuscripts concerning the conquest of Mexico and Peru by Cortez, Pizarro and their successors. The documents included a bill of sale of Alvarado's armada to Pizarro and Almagro for 100,000 gold pesos; also, the Cabildo book of the City of the Frontier of the Chachapoyas telling of the assassination of Pizarro by Almagro...
...Defeat of the Spanish Armada", Professor Merriman, Harvard...
...action takes place during the time of the great Armada when hostile feeling against the Spaniards was at its highest pitch in England. To fit with this setting there is the beautiful and noble heroine the brawny, brave, and confident hero, and last but not least the urbanely smooth Spanish Count who enters the story by virtue of a shipwreck on English shores. This wily son of Spain abducts the beautiful heroine and carries her to his native land. Through all sorts of adversity she is followed by her faithful lover, and in the end, as may well be expected...
...Watchers on the mountains above happy Honolulu descried a blur, then some blotches, then a forest, then an armada on the cobalt southern horizon of Hawaii. It was the U. S. battle fleet, 82 ships strong, steaming to Honolulu and Pearl Harbors for spring maneuvers. On the way out from California, an "enemy" had been met and adroitly disposed of. Now, nearing shore, the great fleet moved in circumspect battle formation, a giant circle of ships with the dreadnaughts in the centre, the cruisers in the perimeter and the carrier Langley out ahead releasing planes to scout far ahead...
...dominate Washington society. Born Juliette Williams of Washington, she married Capitalist Joseph Leiter of Chicago in 1908. Her mother, a Mrs. John R. Williams, whom she is said to resemble, still conducts a prosperous Washington realty business, specializing in bachelor apartments with nautical names such as "Anchorage," "Galleon," "Moorings," "Armada." * Mrs. Pearcy F. Eames of Manhattan and Mrs. E. S. Rochester of Washington. * For a description of how the U. S. Chamber's referendum on tax-cutting was taken in at least one city, see LETTERS, p. 2. Chamber-President Pierson announced last week that a flood control referendum...