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...news that all Cuban newspapers could print without fear, and they spread themselves with pictures, columns of text and descriptions of the inquest of the shark-killed boatman. Miss Harding flew for Hollywood, heavily veiled, after providing a $25-a-month pension for the boatman's widow. Only briefest mention was given another ship far more important to every Cuban, the United Fruit liner Peten carrying lean young Benjamin Sumner Welles from "New York to his post as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba...
...Briefest of major U. S. party platforms in many a long year was the one put forth last week by the Democrats assembled in Chicago. Where the Republicans last month took 9,000 words to express their political convictions, the Democrats said their say in 1,450 words. Each of 17 planks had been whittled neatly down by a literate Resolutions Committee, but economy of words did not necessarily mean clarity of ideas. Except for Prohibition, the Democratic platform was even more vague than the Republican...
...kind of books, and how many, have been bought with it. No separate count has been kept of the number of volumes purchased, although the total is well in the thousands. It is quality, not quantity, that counts. The purchases cover a wide range of subjects, and only the briefest summary can be attempted here. English literature stands first in the number of works acquired, partly because it has perhaps the widest appeal, but chiefly because certain large subscriptions, amounting to $7,500, were specifically given for the purchase of English prose fiction. As a result of this, the collection...
...kept quiet ever since. Signor Grandi, working quietly with British and French undersecretaries, finally reached the point where he could bring to Rome last week in the role of "honest brokers" British Foreign Minister Arthur Henderson and First Lord of the British Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. After the very briefest visit, after a most cordial audience with Peace-Announcer Mussolini, the Englishmen were able to take to Paris an agreement so satisfactory that within four hours French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand pronounced it acceptable to France...
President Coolidge (after the briefest pause): You know where Tacna-Arica is, Mr. Moore, and I want you to go there...