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...this was not enough, however, to distract Penate's friends. They kept up their barrage of criticism against Carlos Manuel De La Cruz, the man who had got the key job Penate wanted, the presidency of the Council of State. Penate had .killed himself day after Mendieta appointed De La Cruz. The friends charged the Mendieta Government with veering toward a Fascist dictatorship, charged that De La Cruz had been far too friendly with Tyrant Machado. Finally the echoes of Penate's death forced De La Cruz to hand in his resignation and the political factions again began...
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...
When lynched at San Jose, Kidnapper Holmes was naked. Kidnapper Thurmond had lost his trousers. Although the Press was unanimously outraged over the incident, few papers chose to print the photographs of the victims as a Horrible Example. Among those that did were the Oakland Post-Enquirer, Santa Cruz News and Sentinel, Los Angeles Herald & Express, Medford (Ore.) Mail-Tribune, Prescott (Ariz.) Journal-Miner, Centralia (Wash.) Chronicle, Oklahoma City News, Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette, Anderson (S. C.) Independent, Johnson City (Tenn.) Staff News, Kingston (N. C.) Free Press, New York City Daily News, Mirror, American and Journal...
Mexico. Floods, built up by torrential rains, swept down the San Alejo River in Vera Cruz, engulfed without warning eight women washing clothes on the river bank, seven children playing beside them. Other floods swamped suburbs of Mexico City, made 1,000 homeless, drowned two boys...
...with the Marines in Cuba, his greenness soon seasoned into tougher timber; he decided that he liked the life. He saw quite active service in the Philippines, in China, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Haiti. Twice he won the Congressional Medal of Honor-for his part in the fighting at Vera Cruz, in 1914, and for the capture of Fort Riviera (whose existence Haiti's Minister to the U. S., Dantes Bellegarde, two years ago attempted to deny). Butler says he was sidetracked during the War because of an ''honest expression of opinion," was finally sent to France only...