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Last week Northern generals sent Liu Chien-nien more munitions and draft of 1,000 soldiers. They were gratefully received. Northern generals ordered him to attack President Chiang Kaishek. Liu Chien-nien refused again...
...nearly broke Debs's heart. Cried he: "I abhor war!" To him it was purely a Capitalist fight. At Canton. Ohio, in June 1918 he shrilled loudest against the military policies of the U. S.. was indicted and convicted of violating the Espionage Law, of obstructing the Draft and giving aid and comfort to the enemy. His sentence: ten years in jail which the Supreme Court sustained unanimously in March 1919. First he was comfortably imprisoned at Moundsville. W. Va.. then transferred to Atlanta where he nearly died in confinement. President Harding freed him in December...
Arkansas. Though Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson, Democratic leader of the Senate, is allied with President Hoover on such international matters as the London Naval Treaty which he helped to draft, on domestic matters he is still an untrammeled political partisan seeking renomination in his State's primary Aug. 12. Less than a week back in the U. S. from London, Senator Robinson took a shot at President Hoover, as an opener to his own campaign, in these words through the Democratic National Committee...
Will all Seniors who have not filled out the bank drafts sent by the treasurer, because of uncertainty as to their permanent bank, please mail just the first draft of the plan they choose. The treasurer will notify them when the payment is due next year. All Seniors should mail their contributions to James Roosevelt, 5 Linden Street, today if possible...
Slightly more powerful and of slightly greater draft than the Bremen (product of Bremen's Weser shipyards) is the Europa (built by Hamburg's Blohm & Voss. builders also of the Leviathan, Majestic and Berengaria, all seized from Germany after the War). But to the casual eye the speediest sisters are exact twins, externally...