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...sympathized with the lonely plight of owl-eyed Emperor Henry was swart little President General Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez of El Salvador, a nation about as large as Maryland. President Martinez, a vegetarian, a teetotaller and an authority on agricultural reform, had been in office more than two years before the U. S. recognized him, knew only too well the penalties of nonrecognition. On Jan. 26 of this year, President Roosevelt was ready to admit the existence of President Martinez. Thirty-six days later President Martinez was ready to admit privily the existence of Emperor Kang Teh. But he apparently...
When the field took the turn in the Youthful Stakes, run at Jamaica fortnight ago, Psychic Bid, of Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane's Brookmeade Stable, went wide. Swart little Jockey Dominick Bellizzi tugged desperately at his 2-year-old's left rein. The bit slipped through Psychic Bid's angry mouth. Jockey Bellizzi went flying from his perch, hurtled into the dust. Hoofs struck and crushed his crumpled body and when the field thundered off Jockey Bellizzi lay in his dirty royal-blue-&-white silks, unconscious...
...fine. Walking with a cane but otherwise apparently untouched by ravages of age or care, the Bishop last week stepped into the District of Columbia Court House. He took an active part in selecting the jury, nodding his approval before each juror was selected, making notes and prompting his swart lawyer, Robert H. McNeill, who sat beside him. When Assistant U. S. District Attorney John J. Wilson got up to outline the Government's case, the Bishop suddenly lost interest. As if it were of the greatest indifference to him he stared at the ceiling, leaned his head back...
...Thus did swart little Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia of Greater New York (childless but the parent of a small adopted daughter) describe the economy bill finally passed in his city's behalf last week by the State Legislature, ending a conflict in which a Fusion-Republican Mayor and a Regular Democratic Governor had bucked a Tammany-influenced Legislature for 100 days (TIME...
Sandino's memory was still the most combustible thing in Nicaragua. To fill the great little man's boots, a swart, chunky dentist named Pedro Jose Zepeda popped up in Mexico City last week and announced that he had the papers that entitled him to leadership of Sandino's followers. Cried he: "I have ten generals and 1,500 armed men ready to take the field at the order of President Sacasa against the dictatorship now in control of the country [Somoza...