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...Cuba's aristocratic House of Mendoza hovered last week scandal and disgrace. Mendoza menfolk are among Cuba's leading lawyers. They represent American Sugar Refining, Electric Bond & Share. Last month socialite Senora Mariana de la Torre Mendoza became the first woman ever arraigned before a Cuban court martial. She, her son Dr. Igacio Mendoza and a nephew, were charged with conspiracy to assassinate on June 10, by means of a 6-lb. dynamite bomb, General Gerardo Machado y Morales, President of Cuba...
...measures to meet the crisis are harangued. The politicians, represented in the army by Commandant Malone, want only to pull their chestnuts out of the fire; but Allen, to his own surprise, proposes Catherine's plan. Malone's men accuse him of treason. Before they can court-martial him he escapes with Brigid and Catherine, to the friendly aviation base at Rathdonnel...
Across St. Louis's twisty Free Bridge last week went a rag-tag troupe of some 300 men clad in odds & ends of martial raiment-an old overseas cap here, a dirty olive drab tunic there. A few carried pails in which to make coffee and stews, a few carried clubs. The latter served as "military police." They were supposed to suppress vandalism, prevent radical speechmaking, see that none of the company begged or got drunk. One man carried clippings to show that before the Depression he was an Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony...
...Gone was the martial spirit of discipline. King Carnival reigned and far into the night the revelry...
...president. (His subordinate, Lieut-Colonel Robert C. Richardson, Commandant of Cadets, is West Point's dean.) He is liberal, much-loved by the cadets. He rescinded the Academy rules against riding in automobiles but enforces vigilantly the regulations against pocket-money and drinking (which is punishable by court-martial). During his tenure the Army and Navy have not yet been able to see eye-to-eye on football (save for post season charity matches) but he believes there may soon be a rapprochement. Last week General Smith, after 44 years, got from the football team his West Point...