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...bombs. Then five months later Colonel Francis Riggs, Insular Chief of Police, was assassinated by two young Nationalists as he drove home from Sunday morning mass. The two assassins were seized by police and shot two hours later in the police station when they "tried to seize arms." Last autumn Santiago Iglesias, Puerto Rican Commissioner to the U. S., was wounded in the arm by a Nationalist while he was delivering a campaign speech (TIME, March 2, 1936 et seq.}. Last week Puerto Rico's dread disease of violence had its bloodiest irruption to date...
...girl with no looks but a college education and hasn't she made a success of herself?" Mr. Vallee assured her that a college education was an advantage in any profession. The result was that Heloise agreed to go back to Drake as a junior last autumn. At the station she broke down and wept...
...Last autumn, to comply with the law which required that the Commission be appointed within 90 days after its passage, President Roosevelt "temporarily" named three men : Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, Rear Admiral Harry Gabriel Hamlet and Treasury Official George Landick...
...Building materials and iron and steel products have been in new high ground for some time. To these conspicuous markers on the highway to inflation were added non-ferrous metals (lead, zinc, copper, tin, etc.), which as a group have risen 46% since the commodity boom got underway last autumn...
...plurality of Lodge in the Senatorial campaign mounted higher and Curley's friends dropped away like leaves in the autumn, the ex-governor's political grave seemed dug and waiting. Now comes his bid for the Mayorality--a stunning disappointment to the men and women who have worked for years to drive him out of public life. It must also be a lesson in practical politics, teaching that a machine is not necessarily beaten by one defeat at the polls. Oratory and newspaper articles do not touch the secret sources of the voting strength of a man like Curley...