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...marks" but he was never brought to trial, lived in an officers' club while under arrest. This sample of Ortiz' work is particularly well known: Two years ago two Oriente students who had spoken against Ortiz happened to come to Havana. Another Cuban named Wycliffe Grafton was with them when Ortiz called. Said Ortiz, smiling, "Well, boys, I have you here at last." Grafton, claiming U. S. citizenship, was freed. Five days later the other two were found dead, their teeth knocked out, their eyeballs ruptured...
...Harvard College, established the ideas of the liberty of the sea, and the impossibility of its monopoly by any one-nation, a doctrine of far-reaching consequences. And being in a thoughtful mood, the Vagabond this morning will visit Harvard 6 at 11 o'clock, to hear Professor George Grafton Wilson give his interpretation of the significance of Grotius in the development of human history...
Some Denverites: Railroadman George Mortimer Pullman, Shoeman William Lewis Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Assistant Secretary of State James Grafton Rogers, Paul Whiteman, Author Courtney Ryley Cooper, Silverman Simon Guggenheim whose son is named George Denver...
...President Hoover definitely picked Senator Claude Augustus Swanson of Virginia, ranking Democrat of the Foreign Relations Committee, as a U. S. delegate to the February Arms Conference at Geneva. Another likely choice: Assistant Secretary of State James Grafton Rogers...
...opening exhibit were Sir John Lavery and the late Sir William Orpen, two great Irishmen whose memberships in London's Royal Academy have dimmed the fact that they belong also to the Royal Hibernian Academy which, chartered in 1823, now has 24 members and a gallery on Grafton Street, Dublin. Sir John and Sir William were eagerly reclaimed for Ireland last week. One of the three Orpens on view was a severe portrait of Solomon R. Guggenheim. Other paintings on view were a seascape by the late Nathaniel Hone, last survivor of the Barbizon School; 20 lively...