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Obispo v. Obispo Maximo, Sixty years ago Dennis Dougherty ("Dinny" to his parents, Patrick and Bridget, Irish immigrants) was a schoolboy of grimy Girardville, Pa. who spent his vacations as a breaker boy in the coal mines. At 14 he passed the entrance examinations for St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook near Philadelphia. Told he was too young to enter, he spent two years in a Jesuit College in Montreal, returned to St. Charles, was admitted to the same class he would have joined in the first place. In 1885 Dennis Dougherty went to Rome's North American College...
...when U. S. papers flared with stories of "Butcher" Weyler, Calixto Garcia, Maximo Gomez, the Philadelphia Bulletin sent Artist Luks to Cuba as war correspondent and illustrator. Because he was not content to gather his news at Havana cafe tables, he was arrested, imprisoned four times. "The spiggoties," says he, "slammed me into the cooler . . . put me away with the rats and the Cubans and deliberated whether to shoot me at dawn or sundown...
Cuba. Prolonged rioting between Liberals and Conservatives caused a threat of martial law in the town of Maximo Gomez, Matanzas Province. At Cruces, Santa Clara Province, horn-spectacled President Gerardo Machado neatly nipped another revolution in the bud by arresting 20 members of the Nationalist (anti-Machado) party, disclosed a plot to raid the Cruces army post, seize the arsenal stored there...
...most vicious of them are court-martialed, shot, dumped into the Gulf of Mexico where the sharks quickly eat their cadavers. Foreign agitators are kept in discomfort aboard the Maximo Gomez, an old battleship, until they can be deported...
...SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA LECTURE. "Por pue la Lengua Inglesa es la Primera del Mundo, y la Segunda la Espanola," Senor Maximo Yturralde. Assembly Room of the Union...