Word: gandt
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Scooper de Gandt. No alluring French woman but a man whose blood is a mix ture of French and Belgian scooped the story of the Dictator's fall for his U. S. employers, the United Press. They put the news on their wires six hours ahead of competitors, kept on firing out detail after detail through an anxious day, while other news services periodically reported the official denials of the Spanish censor...
...three days before the story broke, employes of Scooper Jean de Gandt had stalked the Dictator night and day, noting everywhere he went and the hour when. Following are significant hours, minutes...
...gone behind the royal back to ask the "confidence" of Captains General. Attempts at explanation by the dizzy Dictator are royally ignored. The Dictator leaves the Palace with his fate already sealed?unless he should decide to defy the King. Despatches covering all this are filed by Scooper de Gandt and pass the Spanish censor who will later deny their truth. Fearing that they will not pass, the Scooper dashes to a telephone, talks the scoop to Paris for relay to New York...
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