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Only last year short, swart Senor Don Carlos Guillermo Davila, potent Chilean publisher, was hobnobbing in Washington with President Hoover and many another man of property. Senor Davila, as Chilean Ambassador and a leading negotiator in setting up the Chilean-U. S. nitrate trust (Cosach), looked and acted as though he would be the last man on earth to propose State Socialism. Last week he suddenly proposed it to the Chilean people in a bulky manifesto of 20,000 words, was accused of wanting to make himself President by a coup...
...Lansing, Ill., two men entered the Oak Glen Trust & Savings Bank. One was calm, swart, carried a machinegun. The other, nervous, blond, dapper, carried a pistol. The nervous blond was too embarrassed to take money from the cashier's drawer. Said his colleague: "Open the drawer, you lug." Later the blond's gun-hand shook so violently the gun discharged, the bullet going into the floor. Shouted his colleague, no longer calm: "You heat head, put that gun away before you shoot yourself." Said the blond, calmer now: "Quit picking on me. I'm doing the best...
...Syrian sheik named Monte Bourjaily left his home in the hills of Lebanon for the land of opportunity. Op|portunity knocked. After an education at Syracuse University, he became general manager of United Features Syndicate. Swart, indefatigable, he was chiefly responsible for United Features' growth in business-from $120,000 in 1927 to over a million this year...
From another sector of the courtroom the jury was scrutinized by a swart, heavy Hawaiian who wore spectacles and chewed gum. A trolley motorman. he was Joseph Kahahawai. It was his son and namesake whom Mrs. Fortescue, Lieut. Massie and the two sailors were accused of kidnapping last January from the steps of the same courthouse, shooting to death in the Fortescue cottage and then carrying out toward Koko Head, where they were arrested. Father Kahahawai was there to watch U. S. justice done. Near the defendants sat the other figure most involved in the Territory's most sensational...
Hanno, the Carthagenian, swart of brow, Steering his blistered wooden ships...