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...anti-de Cespedes revolution in Luba was barely a day old last week when Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson strode out of the White House and thrust himself into the thick of it. Not since this 71-year-old Virginian took office in the Cabinet had the Washington air been so electric with martial preparations. Fresh from the Presidential presence, he felt the thrill of national excitement as newshawks clustered about him plied him with questions...
...rage, his face dark with blood, surrounded by 24 bodyguards armed with machine-guns. The officers retired to Havana's National Hotel, strategically isolated on a cliff-walled hill. Even more strategic, the National Hotel housed U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles and Cuba's Financial Adviser Adolf Augustus Berle...
...graft. The resultant reform movement sent Tammany Boss Richard Croker scurrying to exile in Ireland, by huge majorities elected William L. Strong mayor, made Theodore Roosevelt commissioner of police. Died. Robert Augustus Chesebrough. 96, retired president of Chesebrough Manufacturing Co., inventor of vaseline, a founder of the New York Real Estate Board; of old age; in Spring Lake...
...workman's clothes looking a bit like Charles Augustus Lindbergh without a shave walked out of Moscow's Kremlin one day last month, across vasty Red Square and stopped at a line of common folk waiting outside a State store. He asked the man at the end of the line, "What are you waiting to buy, Comrade...
...Cuba's aid last week President Roosevelt sent the best man he could find. his own Braintruster Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., the R. F. C.'s soft-spoken little rail-road credit manager, an expert on Caribbean law and economics. Last week in Washington U. S. sugar refiners broke out at a hearing of the commission on U. S. sugar marketing and accused vibrant Mr. Berle, acting as the Farm Adjustment Administration's counsel, of being "prejudiced in favor of refining interests in Cuba." Two days later President Roosevelt appointed Mr. Berle financial adviser...