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...sweating through the jungle, attacked and captured a fortified Paraguayan hut proudly known as Fort Boqueron. Little Paraguay has a regular army of only 3,000 men, but no bantams crowed more fiercely than the pugnacious Paraguayans last week. Pudgy, pop-eyed President Jose P. Guggiari sent a strong protest to the League of Nations against Bolivian aggression, then mobilized the army and published a clarion to his people...
...observes the political amenities by publicly claiming victory, expects to surpass the Debs vote of 1920. Some Socialists think his vote will go as high as two million as a reaction to hard times. This expectation is based on the idea that many a liberal Republican and Democrat will protest-vote the Socialist ticket. Last month in Cleveland the League for Independent Political Action, led by Columbia's dreamy Professor John Dewey, plunked for Nominee Thomas...
...time). "I shot the President of the Republic of France! France listen to me! . . . When I came to France I saw people living in security and plenty and I thought of millions of Russian peasants groveling out their lives in starvation and misery. . . . My crime is a protest in the name of the enslaved Russian people...
Gibson's Choice. . . . When Britain's "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, President of the Conference, tried to give Ambassador Gibson the floor to urge adjournment there was immediate protest. Before Mr. Gibson could reach the rostrum Dutch Delegate Dr. V. H. Rutgers, rose shouting: "Which other delegates will participate in immediate discussion...
...what promised to be the last day of the session Commander Waters led thousands of his B. E. F. to the Capitol to protest adjournment. Barred from the plaza by a thin line of police, the veterans were at first good-natured and docile. When a truck dumped a load of bricks ordered for fireproofing a sub-basement of the Capitol, they roared with laughter...