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...onetime friend, General Menocal (now of the Opposition), is doughty Sr. Arturo Rente, veteran of the Cuban shooting affrays of 1916. Last week as Sr. Rente sat sipping coffee in a Havana cafe he sneezed, sneezed again, sneezed a third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh time, coughed, gasped, spat out a bullet, sighed with relief. The bullet was smooth-polished after spending 15 years lodged in the roof of Sr. Rente's mouth, whence surgeons had dared not remove it. Long ago they predicted it would make Sr. Rente an idiot or a paralytic. He is not yet either...
...trick is to look like a "white spat boy," for diplomacy is a white spat game; but to act with inflexible firmness and more than sufficient tact. Tactfully Minister Whitehouse gave the No. 3 president an "out," explained that for him to remain in office would be contrary to "The Treaty of 1923." What the treaty.is all about was comparatively immaterial.* The No. 3 president, who had not scrupled to ignore the Guatemalan constitution, was presumably not squeamish about scraps of paper. He took 24 hours to think over the impression made on him by Minister Whitehouse, then resigned...
...President's sentiments. Hence it was with a loose-worded ferocity seldom exhibited by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that Senator Norris retorted to Mr. Wood by accusing President, Hoover of personally approving the "conspiracy." "Cowardly . . . underhanded . . . disreputable ..." were some of the epithets the ghosty Nebraskan spat out in the direction of the White House. "I was fighting for the Republican party and its upbuilding and puri- fication when Mr. Hoover himself was a resident and voter of Great Britain. . . . When he came to this country from Great Britain he became a Democrat. . . . He remained a Democrat...
...Government was able to capture some of them without opposition. The rest, however, put up a terrific battle. For an hour machine guns rattled, rifles spat and finally steel met steel in hand to hand fighting...
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