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...land marines to keep order. Captain Nelson wired President Obregon saying he was about to give the desired assistance. Obregon's Secretary of War wired back: "No official is authorized to solicit aid of foreign troops whatever may be the conditions at the port of Acapulco. Such request constitutes . . . treason...
...urgency of the Committee's request applies especially to class officers and Phi Beta Kappa men, who will soon have their pictures taken for the Album...
...account of his life published in the "New York Tribune" to illustrate this fact. "Dr. Eliot was the first to introduce gas in Harvard. Recognizing that his room in old Holworthy would be improved by the new discovery, he formally asked permission of the faculty to install it. The request at first was flatly refused. Later permission was granted with misgiving, and Dr. Eliot's room in Holworthy was the first to be so illuminated...
...Running. He was glad that the treaty to put an end to rum running had been successfully negotiated. Nothing, he said, had humiliated him more than to have to go to the State Department, week after week, to request the release of some wretched schooner, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly flying the British flag...
...destruction of the Grenfell Hospital in Labrador will not affect those men joining the Grenfell Mission this year. In fact, there will probably be a request issued for more members, so that the hospital may be rebuilt...