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...must ask the Sergeant-at-Arms to remove the Honorable Member...
...face with a straw hat, having passed the early morning hours in a lockup. He heard himself charged with disorderly conduct, heard that he "while intoxicated did use abusive and profane language and attempted to take the officer's baton." He had, moreover, shouted to the desk sergeant in the police station: "I'm going to burn you all up for this! Wait till you hear from the Senator from Ohio." Fess admitted the whole story, of how he had been refused entrance to a night club, and then had called upon a nearby policeman to help...
...Author. Stefan Zweig, of Salzburg, Austria, is no kin to Arnold Zweig of Berlin, author of The Case of Sergeant Grischa. Well and comfortably educated, he wandered the world, might have continued indefinitely had it not been for the War, which turned him to writing and made him a European bestseller. Manhattan theatre-goers know his adaptation of Ben Jonson's Volpone. Other U. S.-translated books: Conflicts, Adepts in Self-Portraiture, Joseph Fouche...
...Souilly. More than 1,000,000 U. S. soldiers took part in this engagement, captured 26,000 prisoners, suffered 117,000 casualties. To the infantry, to the air service, to the medical corps went Pershing praise. Singled out for special mention were the "Lost Battalion," Lieut. Samuel Woodfill and Sergeant Alvin C. York who captured 132 prisoners...
...earthquake (TIME, April 13), sprang again last week. Possibly the No. 1 bandit, General Augusto Sandino, who had voluntarily announced suspension of hostilities, was not to blame. But on Nicaragua's east coast bandits of some sort killed U. S. Marine Captain Harlem Pefley, Lieut. Darrah and Sergeant Taylor at Logtown, surrounded another Marine detachment from the U. S. cruiser Asheville (rumor said 25 Marines were killed), caused the U. S. cruiser Memphis to dash over from Guantanamo Bay with a rescue force...