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...Zerbetta, Ohio, and therefore tolerated an exile cluttered with boxing in Los Angeles, acting in cinema, selling sporting goods in Boston, and finally life in the big city with his refined Cousin Abner. New York's smells, noises, intellectuals, palled on Lamon until he discovered Frankie de Lima (she had adopted the name of her Ohio home-town). Lamon basked in the glow of her vivacity, until sudden catastrophe brought him home to Zerbetta with the girl who "understood...
Last week the District Court of Appeals at Lima, Ohio, decided that Killer Remus was sane, ordered him released from the asylum. The majority opinion handed down by Judges Phil M. Crow and Kent W. Hughes said: "We frankly say that if his [Remus's] mental condition was at the time he committed the homicide as it was shown to be at the time of the trial before us, the verdict was a most flagrant and reprehensible outrage of judicial administration which cannot be too strongly condemned...
...Peru having raised no objection, President Coolidge appointed Alexander Pollock Moore, hearty Pittsburgher, to succeed Miles Poindexter of Seattle as U. S. Ambassador at Lima...
Nevertheless, people were puzzled last week when the State Department said it had queried the Peruvian Government to see if Mr. Moore would be an acceptable successor to Miles Poindexter of Spokane, erstwhile Senatorial lameduck, who soon vacates his Ministry at Lima. President Coolidge is most sensitive to criticism of his appointments and people who have not seen Mr. Moore lately still think of him as a Pittsburgher of the burghiest. Why should President Coolidge choose Mr. Moore? 'Why, moreover, should Mr. Moore want to go to Peru...
...still, why should Mr. Moore want to go to Peru? Peru is far away. Lima society is exciting, but very limited. After Madrid, Mr. Moore would find it paltry if not provincial. And aside from the absurd Tacna-Arica dispute, in which the U. S. is a laughed-at arbiter, no momentous Peruvian problem awaits solution by a stalwart U. S. patriot. True, there is talk that U. S. bankers are planning handsome developments, which is to say exploitations, in Peru. But Mr. Moore, with all the money a man could decently desire, is far above being a dollar diplomatist...