Word: rounsevelle
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Last week a Federal judge in Ancon, C. Z. directed a jury to dismiss, for insufficient evidence, the first count?that Publisher Rounsevell had compared Colonel James V. Heidt to Adolf Hitler, in an editorial intimating misuse of company funds.
Few months ago a series of suicides among enlisted men at Fort Clayton, in the Canal Zone, caused Publisher Nelson Rounsevell of the Panama American to charge the commander of that post with working his men mercilessly under the tropical sun, driving them to smoke marijuana cigarets which led to...
¶ Of late the Panama American's stormy crusading publisher, Nelson Rounsevell, has been enraging U. S. Army officers in the Canal Zone's Fort Clayton by headlining stories to the effect that merciless discipline and overwork in tropical heat have driven enlisted men to smoking narcotic marijuana...
Up bobbed the Republic of Panama's valiant little President Harmodio Arias with his personal check for the $2,500 bail. The chuckleheaded court constable refused it. President Arias sent out a detail of his own police to cash a check of Publisher Rounsevell's. They returned with...