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...Consul of Peru...
Last week, tall and distinguished behind his glittering eyeglasses, Marcel Bourguin, French Consul at Vera Cruz, went to the circus. In the animal tent his party stopped before a musky line of elephants...
...Mais ils sont fantastique!" cried Consul Bourguin and purchased a bunch of spotted yellow bananas. A bull elephant swayed forward automatically, shot out his crinkled trunk and delicately stuffed a handful of bananas into his little pink mouth. Suddenly two little red eyes focussed on Consul Bourguin, the elephant stopped chewing. Out shot the trunk again, like a fist this time, while the elephant trumpeted in rage. Consul Bourguin was knocked sprawling beneath the beast. Down stomped a colossal foot to break his leg and hip, then light as an armful of hay the angry elephant swung the French Consul...
Expense items listed by Mr. Blackmer included $400 for a party for Writers Heywood Broun, Mark Hellinger, Laurence Stallings & others, a $25 treat for Atlanta "social leaders and clubwomen," $75 lavished on the French consul and others at Chicago, an unnamed sum spent on "Mr. & Mrs. Biddle" at Pinehurst, N. C. Host Blackmer also said he had cast a few croutons on the political waters of the nation's capital. "In Washington," he testified, 'T entertained almost every night at my hotel various representatives of the Army and Navy, particularly Captain Joel Boone of the White House [President...
...five days he enjoyed some hope. Then word came that before going fishing fortnight ago President Roosevelt signed a warrant for Insull's arrest ordering the U. S. Vice Consul in Istanbul, to bring the body of Samuel Insull back to Chicago for trial for using the mails to defraud, violation of the Bankruptcy Act, larceny and embezzlement in connection with the $2,000,000,000 crash of the Insull utilities pyramid...