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...JOURNEY OF THE FLAME-Antonio de Fierro Blanco-Houghton Mifflin...
...makings of another Sacco-Vanzetti or Mooney-Billings case were nipped coldly when the jury in a Queens County Court declared Athos Terzani, taxi driver with a mission, not guilty of the murder of his friend Anthony Fierro. Both good leftists, they went to a meeting of the Khaki Shirts of America, during which meeting a riot inadvertently began, as a result of which riot comrade Fierro ceased to be a danger to American fascism. Terzani was arrested; there was the prescribed amount of cooked-up evidence, lax investigation of complete facts, desire on the part of the prosecutor...
...JOURNEY OF THE FLAME- Antonio de Fierro Blanco-Houghton Mifflin...
...Fierro, the Sane. Impetuous young Emilio Carranza crashed to death in a New Jersey storm because he was in a hurry to fly back to his bride in Mexico City (TIME, July 23. 1928). Col. Pablo Sidar, "The Madman," laughed at bad weather reports and fell into the Caribbean in an attempted flight from Mexico to Buenos Aires (TIME, May 19). Last week Col. Roberto Fierro, cool, cautious, conservative, after days of patient preparation, took off from Roosevelt Field, L. I. and 16 hr. 35 min. later landed on Valbuena Field, Mexico City-first non-stop flight from New York...
...Fierro and his mechanic, Arnulfo Cortes, flew a low-wing Lockheed-Sirius named Anahuac (Aztec Empire) almost identical to that now flown by the Lindberghs. They scarcely deviated from their predetermined course, landed only 35 min. later than their 16-hr. time allowance...