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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile able Mexican sleuths were ferreting out the name of the assassin-Jose de Leon Toral-and rounding up his whole family as suspects...
Judge Citroen, assisted by Baron van Zuylen and clubbable M. Andre de Four-quiers, scored the entries by a discreet system of points which admirably concealed the personal penchants, if any, of the greatest European motor man (150 cars...
Channel swimmers take off from Cap Gris Nez, France. Last week the Breton fishing trawler Sainte Therese de L'Enfant Jesus was wallowing past Cape Gray Nose when Captain Jean Marie Bougrad espied a body that did not swim...
Boathooks jabbed at a semi-skeleton from which half the flesh had sloughed away. Seeing a glint of gold at the wrist, Captain Bougrad warned his men not to let it slip off. When peered at it proved to be an identification bracelet engraved: Captain Loewenstein, 315 Rue de la Science, Brussels...
...astonishing and paradoxical were the successes of Obregon may be judged from three facts: 1) He won recognition for his Government from President Harding; 2) He "borrowed" $5,000,000 from. Edward L. Doheny; 3) He was saved from being ousted by a revolt led by General Adolfo de La Huerta, when President Calvin Coolidge declared an embargo on arms destined for Huerta, then permitted Obregon and Calles...