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Into Mr. Hart's office soon marched the Military Governor of Havana Province, grim Major Diaz Calderon, escorting a Cuban engineer, Eduardo Montoulieu. whom President Mendieta had appointed Government Interventor in charge of Cuban Telephone. They demanded Mr. Hart's resignation. He demanded some sort of assurance from the Cuban Government that they were not attempting outright confiscation. Doors were closed and a mighty haggle ensued...
...legs were never any good, but when he and his cronies play-acted as matadors he was acknowledged the best. It was dangerous play: they swam the Guadalquivir at night, climbed into a bullpen and played the bulls naked, using their shirts as matadors' capes. Banderillero Calderon took Belmonte under his wing, taught him everything he knew, made him walk every day to strengthen his feeble legs, carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning of his career Belmonte was frequently hurt: his bad legs made it impossible for him to run fast; he always let the bull pass...
Colombia's Eduardo Santos and Peru's Francisco Garcia Calderon dipped the Imperial ivory gift-pen deep in the Abyssinian inkwell and signed. Cried Senor Santos...
President Coolidge sent 6,000 Marines to Nicaragua and their officers told them to "Get Sandino dead or alive!" In two years of furious guerrilla fighting no one ever "got" General Augusto Calderon Sandino, though at last this slender, sallow, wild-eyed patriot was driven from Nicaragua after his men had killed 21 U. S. Marines (TIME, March 12, 1928). Last week a roving correspondent found Sandino in Yucatan, the arid Mexican state which bulges like a sand blister out into the Gulf of Mexico...
...Famed bandit-patriot Augusto Calderon Sandino, who is still defying some 3,000 U.S. Marines to capture...