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Fearfully Cubans wondered if these words ended the recent truce between Boss Machado ("The Rooster") and that equally cocky Cuban, Dr. Carlos de la Torriente, Leader of the Opposition. Since early December dickering had gone on, the Opposition demanding that the President resign; and since early December there had been no bomb outrage in Havana...
...Yacht Club has been a hotbed of anti-Machado intrigue ever since a member of Dictator Machado's Cabinet was snubbed by a Yacht Club member last December and President Gerardo Machado, El Gallo ("The Rooster"), pad locked the clubhouse in retaliation. Fort night ago Julio Cadena's yacht Coral slipped away from the yacht club pier with Cuba's onetime President, bearded Mario Garcia Menocal on board, also Colonel Carlos Mendieta and a shipload of other insurgents. Their plan was to go down the coast, land, take charge of revo lutionary forces that had already taken...
...fought through the Spanish-American War as a General. In 1917 he buckled on his ancient horse pistol and went out as a rebel against President Menocal. For this revolution he had made peace with Menocal and joined his forces, partly through a mutual hatred of Machado the Rooster, and partly because -Que Diablo!-a good revolution doesn't come every day. Federal troops cornered the white-haired old warrior near Los Palacios in Pinar del Rio. He escaped to the hills on horseback with 22 followers. Again there was a traitor. The Federals followed to Peraza...
News of another strange medicament last week came from White Plains, N. Y. For ten years John M. Hill, warden of the Westchester County Jail at White Plains, kept a white-feathered Japanese silky rooster, a long-tailed fowl with a bluish skin, rare in the U. S. (current value $100). The rooster's name was Murphy. He disliked women, would peck at their legs, would win poultry show prizes...
Murphy died, was buried, his grave marked with a stone. Warden Hill gloomed. For 1) John Davison Rockefeller had given him the rooster, and 2) eggs from Murphy's family of five Japanese hens brought Warden Hill $5 apiece from poultry fanciers. But there were other buyers of those eggs, at whose stealthy purpose the White Plains prison keeper occasionally hinted, as though he were the purveyor of a witch's stew. With Murphy dead, the master revealed his secret commerce. The revelation raised a great guffaw among those who had any sound knowledge of medicine. For, according...