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...Washington, D. C., the German police dog of Andrew W. Mellon was reported to have sat beside Mr. Mellon's chauffeur outside the residence of Charles E. Hughes, puffing a cigarette...
With 22 charges the State House of Representatives of Oklahoma passed a bill of impeachment against Governor J. C. Walton. The charges varied from placing his private chauffeur on the payroll of the Health Department to attempting to prevent a meeting of the legislature, and to accepting a bribe of $6,000 for approving a legislative bill. Except on one charge, that the Governor refused to permit the capital punishment laws to be carried out (he has pardoned and paroled almost 300 prisoners), the vote on every count was heavily against the Governor. On the capital punishment charge the vote...
...Next I made sure of getting hold of a Republican in the chauffeur of the automobile that was hurrying us back from Cintra. I had Luisita ask him point-blank how he liked the Republic. 'Not at all,' he replied, in Portuguese, 'the Republic is no good. Better...
...Deed. A heavily wooded and lonely stretch of road in Greece. An automobile is approaching Santa Quaranta from Janina. In the car, Italian members of the International Commission for Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian frontier - General Tellini, Major Scorti, Lieutenant Conati, their interpreter and their chauffeur. The car is halted by a barricade of fallen trees. Shots ring out from the woods on either side of the road. . . . The five Italians are found dead. . . . The Greek Government expressed its profound regret to Italy. . . . The Ultimatum. The news of the murder was received throughout Italy with violent indignation. Demonstrations against Greece...
...Wooster), elopes with the hero (Kenneth MacKenna). Concealed in the coat lining are the stolen bonds; concealed in the heroine's past is a presumably dead husband. The husband comes out of the past, the bonds out of the lining, and the heroine out of the coat. The faithful chauffeur appears with a revolver and forces the supposed husband to confess to looking exactly like his dead brother and to stealing the bonds. Then comes the punch of the play. It turns out?you'll hardly believe this?it turns out that the revolver wasn't loaded...