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...Every packet of rank, loose-rolled Canarias that Spaniards smoke puts a few centesimos in the pockets of Juan March. Never able to read or write, he laid the foundation of his fortune by selling bootlegged cigarets made from smuggled tobacco. In an effort to collect a little money from him Dictator Primo de Rivera gave him the Morocco tobacco monopoly. Juan March bribed Morocco officials right & left, continued to use smuggled tobacco brought to his factories by Moorish tribesmen whom he is supposed to have supplied with arms...
...King orders Voltaire to the Bastille, dismisses Pompadour for having made him her acquaintance. Voltaire's situation looks serious until he learns from his secretary that de Sarnac has been selling state secrets to Frederick of Prussia. When de Sarnac comes to arrest him, Voltaire shows him a packet of verses which King Frederick has sent him for corrections, pretends that they contain damaging evidence against de Sarnac. When the King arrives to reclaim Pompadour, de Sarnac admits enough to cause the King to arrest him, pardon Voltaire, restore Pompadour, release Nanette and her captain...
...when the last of five extortion letters directed Mrs. James A. Patten, 75, relict of Chicago's wheat tycoon, to walk at night down the street with $50,000, a policewoman set out from the Patten house at the specified time disguised as Mrs. Patten, carrying a dummy packet and a revolver. Detectives caught one Axel Peterson, 52, onetime well-to-do landscape gardener employed by Charles Gates Dawes, Chicago Utilitarian Rufus Cutler Dawes and Northwestern University...
Died. George Peters Lee, 57, last of the Mississippi steamboat Lees, packet designer & master; after a short illness; in Memphis, Tenn...
...elected head of White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Co.). John Pierpont Morgan the Elder in 1902 tossed White Star into International Mercantile Marine, his great pot of North Atlantic shipping. For $35,000,000 I. M. M. tossed it out to Lord Kylsant's Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. (chartered by Queen Victoria) in 1926. After towering Lord Kylsant ("Lord of the Seven Seas") was convicted of selling Royal Mail stock with a fraudulent prospectus, White Star bulked large in the scrambled affairs of fallen Royal Mail. Still owed to I. M. M. on the purchase price...