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...Hurley believes what we think he believes, a compromise is impossible." Equally amazing was the cabal's declaration that if Secretary Hurley asked for a round table conference-which he did not-the independence bloc would not attend. Chief cause of this Hurley-burly was that the swart little legislators felt slighted, and perhaps anxious at the Secretary of War's going around asking the people what they thought of U. S. dominion instead of coming to the people's duly elected officers for his information. Meanwhile, the trim War Chief kept going, kept asking questions...
...Swart, stocky Pierre Laval was born in the barren, backward region of Auvergne in the little village of Châteldon. His father was a grocer. Young Pierre used to drive a butcher's cart. It is the Laval legend that the village priest discovered him one day delivering salami and reading Ovid. He helped him with his studies. Pierre Laval became a schoolmaster, then a lawyer. He was admitted to the bar in Paris and in due time became Mayor of Aubervilliers. In May 1914 he became a Deputy and was listed almost immediately as a violent Socialist. When...
First spark of trouble came from swart Communist Senator Maldonado. He rose in the Senate, condemned the monopoly, demanded that the Government withdraw it. Up jumped Senator Cueva Garcia to remind the Senators that if the monopoly were cancelled, Ecuador would have to repay Kreuger & Toll's $2,000,000 loan. That might be awkward. A melee followed. Somebody got a message to Garcia that a mob was waiting for him outside. Colleagues spirited him away to safety. The monopoly was withdrawn...
East of Third Avenue, Manhattan's 107th Street is a live and crawling thing. Sometimes, late at night, it is almost still. But even when the wretched houses stare poker-faced at nothing in the dark, fetid street there is still a strong sense of the hot, swart, teeming Italians inside. In the winter, 107th Street is piled with refuse and dirty snow. In the summer the sun beats down until it bubbles the tar. Thick, bad odors cling in the crannies, clutch at the passerby...
...never held public office in Chile (with the exception of a brief term as director of the State railroads) until fortnight ago when he became Premier. Last week Pedro Blanquier was back in private life. Eight days of Pedro were apparently enough for Chile's wily Dictator, swart President Carlos Ibanez...