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...constitutional compartment of powers, looked for elbowroom. Last month he noted with interest Montevideo businessmen's protest meetings against heavy taxes. He called in toward Montevideo the regiments he most trusted in the volunteer Army, set them to guard all roads inland from Montevideo's peninsula. The Navy had already been reduced to one small cruiser. Looking for a safe spot to live he turned to the Fire Department which is organized on military lines. To the firehouse he went, ordered the hose laid out, set up his headquarters. Then he gave Uruguay's model Constitution three...
Governor Comstock soon made the holiday optional and many banks outside Detroit reopened with severe restrictions on withdrawals. In Ann Arbor, home of the State University, banks allowed $20 to heads of families. Banks in the northern peninsula across Lake Michigan resumed normal business...
...statement. But the figures are correct."... Peregrine White '33, president of Phillips Brooks House, "We will be glad to cooperate." ... A. N. Holcombe '06, "I can see no plausible reason why this should have any detrimental influence on the aggrandizement of Japan in the disputed area in the Liaotung Peninsula." ... W. S. Sims, Jr. '33, ex-president of the CRIMSON, "The continue lines are wrong." ... F. D. Roosevelt '04, former Harvard man, "I wanted him for my Cabinet." ... A. L. Lowell '77, President of the University, "I have not said anything for twenty-four years, and I don't intend...
...been apprenticed to a brewer of Shoyu (soy sauce), quit brewing to enter the Military Academy (where tuition was free), zealously prepared for what all Japan knew was coming, the Russo-Japanese War. This conflict Imperial Russia had made inevitable by "leasing" from Imperial China the Southern Manchurian peninsula which Japan's "Son of Heaven" had been forced to disgorge...
...burning bush through which God spoke to Moses was atop either Mt. Sinai or, according to another tradition, Mount St. Catherine twelve miles to the south. St. Catherine is the higher. It is the highest (8,540 ft.) peak, the point nearest the Sun in the rocky Sinai Peninsula. For that reason-and because the atmosphere thereabouts is almost dustless, almost hazeless-rather than for holy associations, the Smithsonian Institution decided that the top of St. Catherine was the best accessible place in the entire Eastern Hemisphere for a solar observatory. Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot last week announced that building...