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...Russell of Massachusetts, Robert Winsor and George R. Sheldon, Lucius N. Littauer and Robert Bacon, bankers and statesmen, all in their time football men at Harvard. On the Princeton teams were Blair Lee, later a United States Senator from Maryland and John S. Harlan, later Attorney General of Porto Rico and member of the Inter-State Commerce Commission...
...John Silver, the one-legged, still as ingratiating, still as desperate as ever. There is Pew, the crafty blindman, who sees with his ears. There is Billy Bones, the mate. Southward the two vessels sail. Captain Murray is intent on capturing that year's Spanish treasure ship, sailing from Porto Bello, laden with a million and a half pounds of bullion. Flint and his rum-swigging crew are to receive a quarter of the prize; the crew of the Royal James is to receive a quarter; and a round half is to go to the cause of King James...
...magazine censors, "to organize and finance a movement for fighting the dissemination of immoral and harmful literature." Further, they voted $38,000 to restore the statue of their patron, Christopher, which was destroyed some years gone by earthquakes where it stood on his second landing spot at Aguadilla, Porto Rico...
...Britain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, growls of protest swelled to a swirling roar of indignation. Even in the U. S. voices were not silent. A Unamuno letter was recently sent to the press, accompanied by a hot letter from Judge Peter J. Hamilton of Porto Rico. Don Unamuno's letter, in part: "I have been exiled here, having-been given twenty-four hours to abandon my house, without judicial writ, not even of a military judge ; without any proceeding and without telling...
...soon found out what it meant to be a candidate. First, the deluge of the press. Then the deluge of supporters-the delegate from Porto Rico who had voted for Davis 33 times in San Francisco, and 103 times in Manhattan, etc. Soon the magnates of the party descended -Josephus Daniels, Pat Harrison, Governor Ritchie. Then the telegrams-from A. Mitchell Palmer, from 'Senator McKellar, from General Bliss, from Mr. Associate Justice Butler...