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Tattered bandits sneaked down across the Pis-Pis river and with a whoop fell upon the Laluz gold mine. The time: last April. The place: northeastern Nicaragua...
Three of the four Fletcher Brothers own two gold mines in the lovely, salubrious Pis-Pis region of Nicaragua. The fourth Fletcher Brother, who has no interest in the mines, is the U. S. Ambassador to Italy, suave Henry Prather Fletcher. Last week President James Gilmore Fletcher of the mining corporations and his co-owning brothers, G. Fred & D. Watson Fletcher, all of Manhattan, were irate. President Fletcher dashed to Washington to inform Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg that much was amiss in the valley of the purling Pis-Pis River. The Fletcher mines had been seized, he declared...
...sort acceptable to Parliament, which would produce the revenues indispensable to the state (TIME, March 8 et ante.) As the week closed, an ominous prophecy flew about Paris: "Eh bien! Now we shall have a Dictator or a Soviet or some wizard-demagog like M. Caillaux. Tant pis! So much the worse...
...place to lounge in, and all that sort of thing. The great objection to it is that all who have the entree are tempted to become professional loungers, - a class of people, as I have often told you, who are not appreciated upon this side of the Atlantic. Tant pis pour nous...