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Horn-spectacled Gerardo Machado took the "fishing trip" stories so seriously that martial law was declared in the provinces of Havana and Pinar del Rio. At Luyano, Havana suburb, there took place the Battle of the Stocking Factory.
After years of door-bell-pulling and poll-watching, he ran for Congress in 1912, surprised his family not a bit by being roundly beaten. Two years later, however, he did get himself elected to the New York State Senate, served two terms. He was with the A. E. F...
Many years of Mme. de Stael's life were spent in various European countries where her sparkling salons were centers of revolt against the oppression of French formalism in the arts. She was not too romantic, however, to forget her financial interests, and a large part of her correspondence with...
In Manhattan, Allen Orman, 23, held up with a toy pistol Frances Tauber, 21, hosiery salesgirl, robbed the shop of $30. In binding her to a chair he tore her stocking. Soon after she received a dozen roses, six handkerchiefs, an amorous telegram signed ISLE OF VIEW and a pair...
Good shots: Lincoln dancing with his future wife at a party where Stephen Arnold Douglas is the leading stag; Lincoln called home to supper by his children just as he is receiving the presidential nomination in his Springfield law-office; Lincoln telling his cabinet he is going to take Fort...