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...held mass meetings to protest against being "shushed"' by politicians who fairly screamed that Hawaii's raucous medley of race and sex was all an exaggeration. The Grand Jury met and dawdled while Governor Judd summoned a quick session of the Territorial Legislature, recommended a reorganization of the politics-ridden police force, capital punishment for the crime of rape...
Chief criticism last week was leveled against the Honolulu police, composed of natives and headed by an elective officer. "The police situation is intolerable." Rear Admiral Yates Stirling Jr., district commander at the Pearl Harbor base, reported to the Navy Department. He contended that the service was ridden with politics. In the Massie rape trial, he declared, police officers worked harder for the defense than for the prosecution...
There is a good deal of confusion as to who has ridden on No. gg. The fact is that no one except President Willard and his officers ride on it. If they are important enough, celebrities traveling over the B. & O. are given the Maryland...
...head was full of romantic confusion. The Garibaldi of '49 fighting a lost battle on the walls of Rome moved in the blue smoke which filled the room and penetrated the imagination. This man who was to lead a tortured Italy to unity and freedom seemed to have ridden out of the pages of Trevelyan and to have swept the reader back to the riddled summit of the Janiculum. Standing there with the calm courage of a god, miraculously proof to the bullets of the enemy, one could understand why Italy rose to follow this man. His steps were guided...
...Richard K. Mellon's n-year-old steeplechaser Glangesia, ridden by Gentleman Jockey J. E. Ryan: a gold cup, provided by ex-King Alfonso of Spain, $6,620, and the plaudits of 15,000 socialites and others, for finishing first in the second running of the Grasslands International Steeplechase, at Grasslands Downs, Tenn. Second by 15 lengths was Mrs. T. H. Somerville's Troublemaker...