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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smooth, likable, cautious, Ambassador Castle was graduated from Harvard (1900), served his college as instructor and assistant dean for seven years, edited the Graduates Magazine for two more. During the War he was Director of Communications for the Red Cross. He entered the State Department ten years ago, served as chief of the Western European division until his appointment in 1927 as Assistant Secretary of State...
...Two days later, armed with his appointment credentials from Governor Fisher, rotund, rosy-cheeked Mr. Grundy smilingly entered the Senate chamber with Pennsylvania's Senator Reed to take the oath of office. By mistake he sat in the seat of Senator Norris, who was told that he had been himself "unseated." But for three hours Mr. Grundy had to wait while Senators violently abused him and Governor Fisher. With hands folded in his lap and a bland smile on his round face, he listened placidly to a torrential flow of senatorial invective. He heard himself called a "corrupt lobbyist...
Secretary of the Navy Adams last week called upon Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., for a written explanation of a speech he made in Pittsburgh last fortnight. Comparing Nicaraguan elections with Philadelphian, General Butler was reported to have said: "We Marines took charge of two elections in Nicaragua. The fellow we had in there nobody liked, 'but he was a useful fellow- to us ... so we declared the opposition candidates bandits. Then 400 natives were found who would vote for the proper candidate. Notice was given of opening the polls five minutes beforehand...
Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New England railroad president's name unsullied...
...thousand people and a regiment of militia were at the gates. An airplane droned overhead. Death came for the rioters across the yard, up into the cell block, past the barricades which they had piled up with mattresses, chairs, beds at corners where they could shoot down a corridor two ways and back up to a stairway. Troopers told a convict named Johnson, who was helping them, to pull a mattress off a barricade. A bullet stopped Johnson when he took his first step. A bullet stopped Captain Bruton of the guards. On the top floor there were six rebels...