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Calling out his entire command, planting one foot on a barracks porch railing, scowling his world-famed scowl, the General made a speech. "You birds," he said,"took an oath some time ago to defend the Constitution. Don't let the news stun you, but the Prohibition law is part...
...were gathered in conclave. The Republican high command had decided that lumber and shingles should go on the free list, abandoned to the enemy. Unwilling that this should happen because of sentiment at home, the Westerners urged formation of a western bloc, talked of getting 13 Republican brigades to defend the wood, hoped to induce six western Democratic brigadiers to yield the ground to them for a division of the spoil. Fearing the result of such fraternizing, the Republican high command looked on alarmed...
Blusteringly, Dr. Julius Deutsch, Socialist leader of the Schutzbund countered the Reichspost. "Let them try it," he cried. "Wherever Parliament is removed there will be enough democrats ready to defend the Constitution and democracy...
...this year had Réné Lacoste or Henri Cochet of France been entered. But Lacoste was so seriously ill in the Swiss Alps that he may never be able to play again, and Cochet, treated arrogantly by U. S. officials last year, had not returned to defend his title. Thus the tournament resolved itself before the finals into a contest between Tilden and the generation of younger players whom he has always so far been able to beat...
Last week the Zionist Executive Council and the National Council of Palestine Jews issued in vain a call to "National discipline and calm behavior." Jew-baiting by Arabs and raucous rabbles grew worse daily. While Jews banded together to defend themselves against a mighty pogrom, events occurred with wartime rapidity...