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...National Government was in serious danger. Reporters hurried to the office of Minister of the Interior Salazar Alonso, found him gravely dotting a huge map of Spain with colored pins: one color for Civil Guards, other colors for police reserves, airplane squadrons, cavalry, infantry, artillery. Pausing in his handiwork he told them a startling story. In Northern Asturias police had raided a secret cache of arms and discovered a plot to overthrow the Republic. The arms came from the National factory at Toledo. They had been paid for by a rich financier with the good Basque name of Echevarietta, theoretically...
...culinary Captain Wished, and perfectly justifiably, to get as much as possible on the palmy side of his boss, so consequently, when his table-setting expert returned, he fared forth to the President's lodgings in order to put to the most rigorous inspection possible, his employee's handiwork. With an accomplice, he had himself admitted to the dining salon by a servant, and right away commenced volubly, to a degree which he was certain could not fall to reach the right ears, to find fault with every least possible detail, accompanying those derogatory remarks with gestures whose practical results...
...said that the Gary school system is one of the best in the country. This tradition seems to data from the days when the United States Steel Corporation was the greatest handiwork of God, and when its founder had been canonized by the "American Magazine." It is not likely that the man picked for the head of the Judge' school system was a man naturally antipathetic toward the political and social ideals of the Judge's corporation. Time has been hard on these, as on all ideals. First it was the twelve hour day, cast out some time age with...
...continent between- Bank of America in San Francisco and Bank of America in Manhattan. His successor as Transamerica's chairman, Elisha Walker, soon sold the Manhattan pier to National City Bank. From the depths of his retirement Amadeo Peter Giannini, growing mightily alarmed over the future of his handiwork and his name as No. 1 branch banker of the U. S., emerged in an historic proxy battle to regain control (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Last week Transamerica published its annual report for the first full year of Giannini management since the interregnum. Profits were up from...
Convicts left behind spotted the handiwork of Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw-at-large, said he fired the machine gun, suspected the horn was honked by his woman, gun-toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead of prison bloodhounds, ran for refuge into the cabin of a Negro farmer. The Negro covered him with a shotgun, held him until bloodhounds bayed at the door...