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...fact is that Ray, in company with two or three local newspapermen, did do a beautiful job of journalistic sleuthing in locating the Senatorial cabal in a room of the Blackstone Hotel. I stumbled on to them only a few minutes before the meeting broke up and when Ray had the story completely in hand. It definitely was his story, not mine...
...extreme example of the Annapolis clan spirit is the Green Bowlers, a secret fraternity of Annapolis men dominated by the single idea of helping one another up the naval ladder. Composed of top-flight graduates in each class, the cabal of Green Bowlers was started in 1909, has been reported abandoned. Its influence remains...
...week. The number of purged generals was reported to be 100 or more,* and though Hitler had been forced to reinstate the three biggest vons (Bock, Runstedt, Leeb) in Russia to mount his spring offensive, he had gone out of his way to decorate Elite Guard heroes. The Army cabal was quiescent. Score one for Reinhard Heydrich. Himmler took the credit...
Embassy in Mexico City to lead a Spanish Republican army against the Canary Islands. This cabal, Arriba snarled, was conceived "under the bloodless standard of the movies and with puerile disregard of the vigor of free peoples." Not published in Madrid were the prompt denials of General Miaja and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels...
...Moscow reported: 1) Italians Achille Starace and Ettore Muti had formed a cabal to replace Benito Mussolini with Crown Prince Umberto, then sue for peace; 2) a monarchist had fired two shots at Mussolini; 3) Adolf Hitler had had an epileptic...