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...Reporters discovered that the 3,000 Cuban exiles in Washington. Miami. New York were convinced of and acting upon the following: Hating 10 revive the old war-cry of Yankee Imperialism before the World Economic Conference at London next month. Washington has fought shy of armed intervention under the Platt Amendment.* The April series of political assassinations shocked President Roosevelt into the determination that Machado must go. From Washington wires were gently twitched to force his resignation. The State Department let it be understood that the wires would not be pulled until the exiled opposition in the U. S. could...
...Philadelphia engineer named Haviland H. Platt applied for patents on a revolving-wing in 1927. has been quietly developing it ever since. A large model was designed in consultation with Professor Alexander Klemin. director of New York University's Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics. Currently the Government is closely observing the Platt tests...
Married. Helen Choate, 26, Manhattan poetess, socialite, granddaughter of the late U. S. Ambassador to England Joseph Hodges Choate; and Geoffrey Platt, 27, architect son of Architect Charles Adams Platt; in Manhattan...
Andover: l.e., Tardiff; l.t., Fry; l.g., H. Sears; c., Lewis; r.g., R. Sears; r.t., Hite; r.e., McTernan; q.b., Kellogg; l.h., Burdick; r.h., Platt; f.b., Graham...
...dandyish David Graham Phillips was a man of mark in the days of four-inch collars and wicked "Interests." Even then his collars were higher, his crusading zeal hotter than most. Many a reader remembers well the fuss & fury roused by his expose of Senators DePew, Aldrich, Knox, Foraker, Platt et al. in a Cosmopolitan magazine series called "The Treason of the Senate." President Roosevelt, irked by this intrusion on what he considered his private hunting ground, first used his pet word "muckraker" in veiled denunciation of the author...