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...Prohibition years. Today California makes 97% of U. S. wine and the Wine Institute represents the producers of 75% of California's wine. Little Harry Caddow, still the Wine Institute's secretary-manager, has a hard job getting his temperamental French, Italian, German, Swiss, Hungarian, Armenian and Scottish members to hang together. Biggest Institute wineries are Italian Swiss Colony with a storage capacity of about 13,000,000 gallons, Fruit Industries Ltd., a growers' co-operative with a storage capacity of 19,500,000 gallons, and Roma Wine Co., Inc. which is now expanding...
...first flecks of dawn came up over the low hills around Beirut one morning last week, a swarthy, bullet-headed Armenian trudged with leaden steps over the rough courtyard in front of the High Commissariat Building. Softly he crooned a Turkish song: "I have waited for thee, but thou hast not come." Before a crude, hastily constructed wooden structure, he halted. Above the planking, blackly outlined against the grey dawn, dangled a loose rope. Around the platform stood silent native policemen, Syrian officials. They had gathered to witness the hanging of Mejardich Karayan, the 29-year-old Armenian assassin...
Believing that Marriner had refused him a visa to return to the U. S., the Armenian emptied a revolver into the diplomat as he left his automobile in front of the U. S. Consulate five weeks ago. Actually, Marriner had granted the visa but the letter informing Karayan had not been delivered because of a change of address. Condemned to death after a court had judged him sane, Karayan was refused a last minute reprieve...
...light streaks widened in the east, the young Armenian climbed the scaffold, calmly told his grim-faced audience that "an insult motivated my crime." In an ironic gesture he willed the revolver he used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...
...latter group are to be found a good assortment of rare creeds and unusual cults. Right in our midst there are a proud and effulgent sun-worshipper, a Taoist, a Shintoist, a Calvinist of Science, a Swedenborgian, and representatives of the Covenant Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Apostolic Church...