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...decision confirmed the jailing of a citizen who had refused to tell a committee of the Legislature whether he had bribed an official of New York City. At the same time it denied that that legislative committee had power to deal similarly with any suspected citizen in its search for civic corruption. The fine distinction was between actual bribery and conspiracy to bribe. Straightway the legislative committee moved to erase that distinction...
Police approached the building and attempted to search it on a report that quantities of arms and munitions were hidden there. Its embattled proprietor refused and opened fire. A machine gun squad came out from town on the run. At the end of an hour firing ceased. Police rushed the doors and found inside only the bodies of two dead men, the caretaker and the proprietor. In the cellar was an arsenal of rifles, revolvers, hand grenades, shotguns...
...expedition, sponsored by the International Society for the Exploration of the Arctic by means of Aircraft (abbreviation: Aero-Arctic) has a threefold purpose: 1) search for new land beyond Novaya Zemlya, hitherto unexplored; 2) study Arctic meteorology for its effect on weather the world over; 3) study ice conditions for their effect on oceanography in the northern hemisphere...
...Flying mail between Nanking and Ber lin, a plane and two pilots of Eurasia Corp. were forced down in a storm last fortnight. Another of the company's planes flew out to search, sighted the missing craft in the Mongolian desert. But when the rescuers glided low for a landing, a band of tribesmen shot at them, drove them up and away again. The searchers saw no sign of the stranded pilots...
...spectacular, he served governments, corporations, and such personages as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Sarah Bernhardt, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore. "September Morn" was his idea. He loosed a lion in a Broadway hotel to advertise the cinema Tarzan. He imported eight Turks and had them search Manhattan's Central Park for a missing Virgin of Stamboul. A member of the U. S. Diplomatic Corps for three years, he worked with Lord Northcliffe in England, d'Annunzio in Italy. Said he after the War: "I got the Italians worked up to such a point that they would...