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Authoress Mayo was fond of the A. E. F., still is. "In eight months spent Overseas in the company of our private soldiers, not once did I hear from an American doughboy a phrase coarse in spirit, or an oath." She thinks the boys came home bursting with patriotism, eager to continue serving their country. Since understanding, idealistic leadership was lacking, the returned crusaders disintegrated into citizens no better than stay-at-homes. Distressed that the A. E. F. should have degenerated into the American Legion and the Bonus Army, Authoress Mayo sought the answer in the pension system, investigated...
...palace. Getting the heavy scent of trouble, the ABC revolutionary society boys handed around a fresh shipment of guns. Two days after he had been sworn in, President Hevia suddenly sent his resignation, not to his father-in-law Supreme Court Justice Edelman who had administered the oath, but to Colonel Batista. Then he dropped two dirty shirts into his bags and led his wife, little daughter and brother-in-law out of the Presidential Palace...
Cuba had a fresh President, that grand old man of the old line politicos, Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. Exhausted by his all-night job, Batista was still sound asleep that noon when President Mendieta pushed through a cheering, laughing mob with 20 potent politico friends to take the oath of office from his predecessor's well-trained father...
Last spring George Graham Rice arrived in Manhattan, suave, paunchy and in his usual high spirits. On leaving jail he had taken a pauper's oath but reporters found him in a swank 16-room apartment. To a list of 200 names picked at random from among his Idaho Copper stockholders, he sent greetings and asked them if they were "meeting the challenge" of the New Deal. The response to this "feeler" was good...
...address to the joint session (see p. 14). This piece of misinformation almost deprived Mrs. Roosevelt of a very special pleasure. Just as she was about to leave the galleries with the rest of the spectators, she turned to see her bridesmaid and lifelong friend, Isabella Greenway, take the oath of office as Congresswoman-at-large from Arizona...