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...quarters last week remindful of William Jennings Bryan, "free silver," "16 to i" and "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!" In Colombia, harassed President Olaya Herrera decided that his country's burdens are too great to bear on a gold basis. Congress at his behest rushed through legislation similar to Britain's, barred gold exports from Colombia, barred even the exchange of Colombian pesos into dollars. Further south, President Terra of Uruguay declared that by meeting her interest obligations abroad in gold "Uruguay
...father rose, with his old friend Grandzsa by his side. Punica Ratchitch continued to fire and my father fell, together with Grandzsa and another Croat named Peruar. Taken to a hospital my father died a few weeks later, both from his wounds and from poison administered at the behest of the same men who instigated the massacre by Punica Ratchitch...
...Venezuela gnarled, 74-year-old General Juan Vicente Gomez is still IT. By a freak Constitutional amendment (passed at his behest) he is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and is not responsible to the President of Venezuela. Presumably by General Gomez' order last week the Venezuelan Congress demanded, received and accepted by unanimous vote the resignation of President Juan Bautista Perez, elected only two years ago for a seven-year term...
...Lucas of the Republican National Committee had sent propaganda into Nebraska in October advocating the defeat of Republican Senator George William Norris. In spite of the fact that Chairman Simeon D. Fess had promised support for all Republican candidates ''without exception," Secretary Lucas testified that-at the behest of Nebraska regulars who have long opposed Insurgent Norris-he had spent $4,000 of his own money in having a cartoon, a circular letter and a pamphlet of anti-Norris editorials disseminated throughout the state. Senator Nye had previously pried out the facts in the printing plant of Charles...
...official guest. Marguerite Beery, wife of Cinemactor Noah Beery, who last fortnight disappeared from the Beery ranch near North Hollywood, turned up at the home of Los Angeles friends, telephoned her husband that she was safe & well. Declared Cinemactor Beery who had called in the police at the behest of worried Noah Jr., 17: "I want the proper authorities to in- vestigate this matter and prosecute anyone guilty of enticing or luring Mrs. Beery from her home. ... If there was a man involved in the affair, I might lose my temper. Mrs. Beery is a sick woman and has been...