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Before the papers had time to print them the revolt was over. Troops came on the double, set up machine guns on the avenues around the building. Revolver drawn. Sergeant Major Rizo Patron tramped into the palace with a squad of soldiers...
...came to do my duty," he informed General Rodríguez. Fast-talking Antonio Rodríguez explained that he had taken over the chief executive's job because Benavides had sailed for Europe. "That is untrue," replied the Sergeant Major. Minister Rodríguez, according to the official version of the story, lunged for the officer's gun. It cracked twice and Rodríguez fell dead...
Famed oldtime Pitcher "Cy" Young, now Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms, in Ohio's Senate, was annoyed to find himself listed on baseball's "Scroll of Fame" as Denton Tecumseh Young. His real middle name: True...
...Sergeant A. L. Dynam who was in charge said, "There are plenty of no-parking signs along the street. Any-how the cars were parked too far away from the curb and Quincy, St. must remain open for the fire engines to come through...
That war morale among the Children of the Rising Sun may not be quite that bright is strongly hinted in a Japanese war diary, not yet published in English, called Wheat and Soldiers, written by Sergeant Ashibei Hino. In it Japanese readers got their first realistic, human picture of fighting in China-a day-to-day account of thirst, hunger, homesickness; of no heroes, but plain men fighting desperately for their lives. And between the lines was something that looked suspiciously like anti-war sentiment...