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Last week, still in the hospital ward, he died. By his bedside was a friend as loyal as his own boast, the darling of his salad days and toast of the old Savoy. Peggy Primrose, now plump Mrs. Peggy Lowe. His last gesture was to refuse an allowance of ?1 a week from the bitter, hollow-cheeked printer who sent him to jail and smashed his career: Reuben Bigland...
...house of cards collapsed. During and after the War plump Horatio helped the British Government against its own wishes and his own paper by organizing a series of lotteries, entitled Victory Club, Victory Bond Club, Thrift Bond Prize Club, Victory Derby Sweepstake, etc., etc. Patriots who could not afford a British bond bought tickets. Horatio Bottomley bought bonds and distributed huge prizes to the lucky winners...
...near Avignon in Provence 49 years ago, son of a baker. Though Edouard Daladier was no Separatist, a friend of his boyhood was the late great Poet Frederic Mistral, reviver of the Provencal language. Desiring to be a schoolteacher, Edouard Daladier entered a normal school and studied under a plump vomit: man whose career was to parallel his from then on: Edouard Herriot...
...more men. He had carte blanche to do what he liked. The Government issued no reports but Cubans needed none to know how Ortiz would operate. Than he, no man in Cuba is more famed for murder. Half Negro, he is a big, bull-shouldered man with a plump, cheerful face, small, shadowed eyes. As military supervisor in Oriente Province in 1930, he was accused of 44 political assassinations which he called "suicides." He enjoys performing executions personally and "Ortiz' Mark" means a bullet at the base of a corpse's brain. Civil courts indicted...
...Morgan & Co.'s plump, bespectacled office manager, Leonard A. Keyes, climbs on the stand with a big leather-backed ledger in his arms. From it he reads the story of how Banker Mitchell's $30,000,000 fortune was wiped out. On a wild stockmarket day in October 1929, Mr. Mitchell turned to the House of Morgan for a $12,000,000 loan to support the market for National City Bank stock. By the spring of 1930 the loan had been cut to $6,000,000 but the stockmarket had hardly begun its great decline. Thereafter every...