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...only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded Anarchist", expired peacefully near Moscow in 1921. Not international thinkers but intensely local Barcelona doers by "direct action" are Newshawk Duranty's new news subjects. Anarchist Durruti goes so far as to scoff contemptuously at the Spanish Government, friendly though it is to Barcelona, charging that in the Cabinet there are ministers who secretly want Generalissimo Franco to take Madrid because they think that unless he does all Spain...
Only thoroughly unperturbed person last week was Colonel Brehon Burke Somervell, third to have charge of New York's relief machine in a year, whose character was recently gauged by newshawks who asked him where he came from. "From Arkansas," growled the Colonel, "where men are men and women are glad of it.'' Last week he responded in similar vein to a Journal newshawk: "I think this is swell publicity, and the more weaselers we can find, the better pleased I'll be. If there are any dead men on the payrolls, we want to know...
Embarrassing disclosures made in the second indictment were largely attributable to Fulton Lewis Jr., crack Hearst correspondent in Washington. Some months ago "Dodo" Farnsworth approached Newshawk Lewis, bluntly proposed to write for the Hearst papers a series of articles entitled: "How I was a Spy in the American Navy for the Japanese Government." Price: $20,000. Condition: that he be given 72 hours head start to catch the Hindenburg for Germany. Newshawk Lewis promptly notified Chief William D. Puleston of Naval Intelligence. Next he demanded proof of "Dodo's" relations with the Japanese. Farnsworth called up Commander Yamaguchi...
...went smoothly up to last November when Commander Yamaguchi supplanted Commander Yamaki at the Embassy, coldheartedly resolved to pay Farnsworth on a piecework basis. This sudden drop in income forced the liquor-sodden Farnsworth to go to Newshawk Lewis. It was not long before "Dodo" was in jail...
...originally broadcast to various newspapers by the arch-Republican Boston Herald. The Boston Herald received it from Lawrence Thomas Smyth, of the Bangor, Me. Daily News, who got it from John McFaul, an oldtime News correspondent in Calais, Me., who got it from a "farmer over in Perry." Said Newshawk Smyth in Bangor...