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Tony Stralla, defiant in a tan sombrero, angrily snorted that he had "enough food for a year" on board. He threatened to have the law on Attorney General Warren and his "pirates." While he stuck to his anchorage, far away in Washington large legal wheels began spinning. The House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a quick measure, approved by U. S. Attorney General Murphy, making it a crime to operate a gambling ship under U. S. registry. Tony Stralla had an answer for that one. If need be, said he, he would fly the flag of Japan...
...friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath for Byron's grave, the manuscript of Songs of the Sierras, a pair of cowhide boots and a sombrero, he was taken up by Pre-Raphaelites, became the rage of Mayfair in no time. He whooped as he entered drawing rooms, smoked two cigars at once, picked his teeth with ostentation. Once he scuttled quickly across the floor, bit his hostess' pretty daughter...
...cycle by burlesquing it. In The Oklahoma Kid, the current vogue of the Western is dramatically exemplified by the fact that in it James Cagney, whose cinema career has taken him as far toward the great open spaces as gangsters' hideouts, appears equipped with sombrero, cowboy suit, lasso and two remarkably effective hoss pistols...
...full-blooded Tarascan Indian who once wore a red bead in his ear for good luck, General Amaro as War Minister for former President Plutarco Calles created Mexico's modern army. He has never cut much ice as a politician, but last week when he tossed his sombrero into Mexico's Presidential ring (to succeed Lazaro Cardenas next year) with a forthright denunciation of the present expropriation policy, he created a sensation...
...votes cast in Chicago that day, but Republicans, who cast 274,317 votes, nonetheless took hope for the election April 4. Reason: they had buried their worst local liability, clownish three-time Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who in an attempted comeback at 70, complete with sombrero, coonskin coat, open Cadillac but with no new tricks, polled only 62,000 votes. The rest of the Republican vote went to establish a fresher, more attractive party face, that of Lawyer Dwight Herbert ("Pete") Green...