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...revolver-toting stranger was not John Wilkes Booth, but a look-alike named Thomas Mines. Like Booth, he had a price on his head, but the resemblance ended there. Hines was a former Confederate cavalryman from Kentucky who had made a reputation with Morgan's Raiders. Cool, intelligent and apparently without fear, he had been assigned to espionage work by the Confederacy's Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin. In Confederate Agent, Author Horan tries to prove that Captain Hines was the mastermind of a gigantic plot to defeat the North from within. Hines's chief weapon...
...confirmation of his right to the seat. The report this week goes to the Rules Committee and then to the Senate floor. There, barring a miracle, Dennis Chavez should be able to muster enough of his colleagues' votes to keep his seat. This prospect was clear to ex-Cavalryman Hurley. Growled he: "The Grand Old Party apparently now hasn't the guts that God gave a goose...
Died. Lieut. General Robert Charl-wood ("Nellie") Richardson Jr., 71, old-time cavalryman, World War II chief of Army forces in the mid-Pacific (1943-46); of a heart attack; while visiting in Rome...
...Mexico's Patrick Jay Hurley, onetime (1902-07) Indian-fighting cavalryman and much later U.S. Secretary of War (under Herbert Hoover), is a man who can lose battles and still keep on trying to win the war. Three times (1946, 1948, 1952) he has tried to win a seat in the U.S. Senate, and each time he has failed. Last year, after Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez defeated him by only 5,375 votes, Republican Hurley cried fraud, contested the election, got the U.S. Senate to order an investigation. Last week, more than 13 months after the balloting, Pat Hurley...
...weeks. Then, the recommendation will go to the Senate Rules Committee, which will report to the Senate. Unless Iraud is clearly shown, a majority of Senators almost certainly will stand by Colleague Chavez. On one other point, however, there was even greater certainty: having won a skirmish, old (70) Cavalryman Hurley is sure to dig in his spurs and ride harder than ever...