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Facing his accusers, the "Grand old Democrat" began by proudly confessing to the treasonable charge against him- that he had indeed come from France to Valencia in a leaky old tramp steamer for the sole purpose of leading an insurrection against the present Government of Spain. Whole volumes of typically Spanish controversy have arisen as to whether Revolutionist Sanchez Guerra was received by the Captain General of Valencia "with a closed door"-i.e. whether the highest military official of the province was himself ready to become a party to the revolution...
...from France in a chartered tramp steamer. Her engines broke down. He reached Valencia two days late, after the revolution had fizzled, and just in time to be arrested for High Treason...
...warehouses and a pier. When the big railroads ignored his tiny terminal, he called it to their attention by buying many a carload of hay in Michigan and sending it to himself via Bush Terminal. To impress on steamship lines the existence of his terminal, he hired two Norwegian tramp steamers and began to import to himself via Bush Terminal tons and tons of bananas from Jamaica. Today twelve steamers dock at the Bush Terminal on an average day, and one-fifth of the freight handled in New York passes through it. With quiet pride Mr. Bush says...
...hares, mice, alligators, a tree frog, a wind, an unborn chicken, all reverently humanized. France's Author Cendrars, alone in Russia at 15, made his living roaming from Lapland to the Caucasus; from Mongolia to Siberia to China. In 1908 he landed in Manhattan from a tramp steamer, turned poet. Later he lost his right arm in the War, wrote for the Swedish Ballet, compiled Negro poems, folklore...
...years ago in Springfield, III, he still lives there. His middle name rhymes with Rachel. Besides his verse, he has written The Art of the Moving Picture, The Golden Book of Springfield, Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty, Going to the Sun (description of a Rocky Mountain tramp with Stephen Graham...