Word: lotspiech
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...LOTSPIECH LOS ANGELES...
...rounds of ammunition into the National, poured back a withering, effective fire. Soldiers who tried to rush the hotel were dropped in their tracks by sharpshooting officers, died writhing, groaning and gushing blood upon the grass. Fascinated by this sight was a U. S. meat-packing executive, Robert G. Lotspiech, Swift & Co.'s assistant sales manager in Havana. As he watched from the eleventh floor terrace of the nearby Lopez Serrano Apartments, a stray bullet drilled him through the heart...
...minutes later a misdirected artillery shell plumped into the Ford plant hard by the hotel. Stray bullets peppered buildings in which some 90 U. S. citizens live and work. From Washington, U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull queried Ambassador Welles by telephone, then announced that U. S. Citizen Lotspiech was standing in a "needlessly exposed place" when killed, urged all U. S. citizens in Cuba not to expose themselves needlessly...
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