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...special officers were still guarding the road to the mill, ran home for their guns when an Associated Press bulletin brought the word of the Pontiac mobilization. Several hundred armed .citizens collected about-midnight downtown to repel the invasion, but fortunately the guns were put away at dawn without being used. The reception those first Pontiac unionists received from the ''shotgun brigade" probably had as much to do with the abandonment of the march to Monroe as Homer Martin's honeyed words, for they returned to UAW headquarters with information that Monroe citizens were waiting for them...
Although Socialist Blum had resigned this did not destroy the political majority of the Popular Front. Mindful of this fact President Lebrun asked another Popular Front statesman before dawn to try to form a Cabinet, picking for this effort a Radical Socialist who had twice before been Premier, Camille Chautemps. Names notwithstanding, the Radical Socialists are more conservative than the Socialists in France, and thus the selection of Middle-of-the-Roader Chautemps meant a shift toward the Centre and away from the Communists. To form a Cabinet on this basis was ticklish work this week. Premier-Designate Chautemps...
...Into the dawn debates and dickers roared and muttered. By next noon the American Medical Association's spokesmen officially came to this esoteric decision, which they sent to President Roosevelt: "The American Medical Association reaffirms its willingness, on receipt of direct request, to cooperate with any governmental or other qualified agency, and to make available the information, observations and results of investigation, together with any facilities of the Association." This simply meant that Orthodox Medicine had succeeded in delaying matters until it could feel how the wind was blowing in Washington and arrange to fly in President Roosevelt...
Whether for such extravagant reasons as this one, from The Odd Fellows' Text-Book and Manual of 1876, or merely to foil their loneliness and feed their egos, men since the dawn of history have banded together in secret societies. Modern Free-Masons believe their order "coeval with the creation of the world by the Almighty." Plato recorded the scandalous revels of secret orders in ancient Greece. Africa has its Egbo, eastern Australia its hoary lodges where the initiation begins by knocking out the candidate's front teeth. Nowhere have secret societies flourished more luxuriantly than...
Invasion of Harvard men and guests swell ranks of city an Tercentenary days dawn...