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...half of all his circus stocks. Shortly afterward New York Investors sold the Ringling note to the now bankrupt subsidiary. While ill last year, Mr. Ringling had been unable to meet an interest payment of about $18,000. Financier Greve promptly marched out to Coney Island. Threatening to attach the circus receipts, Financier Greve demanded: "Put all your assets in a bag and give them...
...partly like a sporting event, more like a battle. There are two deserters; one brigader runs several miles from the hospital where his wife is having a baby, to be on time; at a crucial moment the cement runs out: then some blundering fool cuts off the water to attach a metre; it rains; a storm comes, knocking out the telephone wires, imperiling vital communications. One of the briggaders loses a hand between two shunting flatcars. The foreman, incoherent with rage, implores his superior engineer, who he thinks is interfering, to go to hell...
...Harbor. At sight of the big grey man-o'-war excited Cubans along the waterfront began to shout: "Don't welcome these Americans! They've come to kill us." A white launch put out to the cruiser, carrying an Embassy secretary and the U. S. military attaché. They delivered a letter from Ambassador Welles advising Secretary Swanson not to come ashore, lest his presence stir angry demonstrations. The Cabinet officer stayed meekly on the cruiser. Two hours later the Indianapolis pulled up her hook, steamed off for Panama and the Pacific carrying the aged Secretary...
Ousted from Berlin was Chief Commercial Attaché H. Lawrence Groves, 15 years in the service, and Trade Commissioner William T. Daugherty. That left the Berlin bureau halved. The London office was reduced from eleven to two. Offices at Belgrade, Berne, Bucharest, Budapest, Helsingfors, Lisbon, Oslo, Riga were abandoned entirely. Thirteen others were closed throughout the world...
...took office, famed Col. Mario de Bernardi. Schneider Trophy winner in 1926, turned up in civilian clothes. Arturo Ferrarin (Rome-Tokyo; Rome-Brazil) landed on the reserve list. And Col. Francesco de Pinedo awoke halfway around the world one morning to find himself exiled to Buenos Aires as military attach...