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...serious competition for the Crimson in its own field has appeared since the Harvard Daily News threw down the gauntlet in the fall of 1894. The incumbent journalists affected to look down their noses at the upstarts, but were effectively put on their mettle by a keen rivalry that was not always bare-faced and above board. Unethical wire-tapping and signs of yellow journalism on the part of the News, however, showed up the following fall when the challengers were blighted by the failure of their subscription drive...
...Thomas Pierrepoint was a good craftsman. He had a keen eye for sizing up the strength of his subjects' neck muscles; he always tied the noose so that it would break the vertebrae at the first snap and spare the poor blighter a lot of agony. He was discreet about his job, never talked to newsmen, never sold souvenirs. He well earned his 15 guineas ($63) for each hanging job; but, as Mrs. Pierrepoint said: "Chief trouble is, the job's not a regular...
...policy-makers had another angle to consider: Russia. Perón barely led in the election returns when Buenos Aires' keen-nosed Communists joined Perónist unions in a paralyzing strike against packing plants, most of them U.S.-and British-owned. A Russian trade delegation was on its way to Buenos Aires. The next wind to sweep north might bring with it news of the first Russian ambassador in B.A. since the Bolshevik revolution...
...flag or the U.S. dollar, to old banana hands such winds would have signaled hurricane warnings. For politically minded United Fruit was deeply involved in Dictators Ubico's and Carías' rise to power. But wily Sam Zemurray, United's big boss, radar-keen in detecting a gale, had fore-handedly trimmed sail. Now a United Fruit executive in Central America can hardly take a drink in the presence of a Honduran political exile without cursing the Carías tyranny. Says old (69) Sam Zemurray: "These are democratic times...
...most of his books, the prime beef is liberally pieced out with baloney. But the observation is often keen and clinical, the virulence both ferocious and funny...