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...aged 20, Second Lieutenant Rice Means of the ist Colorado Infantry marched off to war in the Philippines. In the World War he was one of two officers not of the regular Army to be put in command of regulars. He was successively commander-in-chief of the Society of the Army of the Philippines (1913). of Veterans of Foreign Wars (1914-15), of United Spanish War Veterans (1926). After defeat for re-election to the Senate, he returned to Washington to look out for Spanish War Veterans' interests in Congress, help run their National Tribune and Stars & Stripes...
...Queen Victoria's only remarks to a phonograph were discovered on a squeaky old Edison cylinder last week, found to be singularly up-to-date and topical. The record, made at Her Majesty's command, voiced her goodwill toward the then Emperor of Ethiopia, great empire-building Menelik. Carried to his wild capital, a reproduction of the cylinder squeaked Victoria's august words into his hairy ear, while the original lay until last week in the archives of London's Edison-Bell...
...Premier Crispi had called the new Governor of Eritrea, General Baratieri, back to Italy for a conference. Between them they decided that the time was ripe for a major move. General Baratieri, an impulsive Latin, seemed satisfied that the 15,000 native and Italian troops under his command were sufficient. He did not know that during his absence in Italy Emperor Menelik had made peace with the chieftains, bought from French munitions makers field guns that out-ranged the Italians' and was sweeping north 'at the head of nearly...
Oreste Baratieri was a Garibaldi Redshirt and an old-school Italian with a family pride sensitive as a rabbit's lip. Three days he brooded over the telegram from Premier Crispi, then assembled the four Generals under his command for a conference. The Ethiopian army was encamped 18 miles away in a brutal country of cliffs, gullies and thorn-covered hills. It outnumbered the Italians six to one and was equipped with artillery. Even so, all five Italian Generals voted to attack at once for the honor of their commander...
...kidnapping racket dumped into its lap when Congress passed the ''Lindbergh Law'' which made snatching across State lines a Federal offense. And at "General" Cummings' request. Congress last year provided the Bureau with automobiles and armaments for the first time. About the same time the Bureau took command of another sector with the passage of an act enabling it to chase, catch and convict national bank robbers. With the passage of these laws the Federal Bureau of Investigation burst upon the national consciousness with the terrifying red glare of a ''Tommy" gun's tracer bullet...