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...have been paid, and that the officers of the Freshman Class give their consent. In View of the already high price of Jubilee tickets ($7 per couple, $5 stag), with $1 reduction to purchasers of the Red Book), it seems to me that this action is unwarranted and merits protest from the class...
Spectacularly Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams, crack airman, served the U. S. Navy for 13 years. Spectacularly he made his exit last week, having resigned in protest against sea-assignment (TIME, April 21). Nothing could have been more characteristic than his parting gesture-the performance of an acrobatic feat never before accomplished: an "inverted falling leaf." Above Anacostia, naval air station, Lieut. Williams rolled a Curtiss Hawk biplane onto its back, throttled the motor, let one wing dip. Wheels to the sky, pilot's head to the ground, the little ship began swinging back and forth, dropping rapidly like...
...First formal protest against the accuracy of the census count was filed by Mayor James E. Dunne who was sure Providence, R. I., had more than 250,288 residents...
Working fast, the Yard forced Assistant Editor W. O. R. Griffiths of the Daily Chronicle to divulge "under protest" that Parliamentary Correspondent John T. Kirk had ferreted the secret. Routed out and third-degreed, Mr. Kirk at last uttered a name which flabbergasted his ten tormentors, the name of no petty civil servant but that of their superior, His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home Affairs, the Cabinet Minister in charge of Scotland Yard, the Right Honorable John Robert Clynes...
Gagged by Britain, enjoined by St. Gandhi to nonviolence, Indians faced appeals by his followers to join in a "Day of Mourning," march in protest parades, participate in hartals (do-nothing strikes). Shops were shuttered and barred in Bombay, Ahmadabad, Jalalpur as great numbers of workers struck in these cities. Guarded by armored cars, some factories at Bombay kept going, their workers harried by swarms of pickets. Censorship made certain that any bad news would be at least delayed. Said Mrs. Gandhi mildly when told of her husband's incarceration: "I hope India will show her mettle and make...