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...most daring of Seminole leaders was a brilliant-eyed, strikingly handsome young buck named Osceola. In 1835 the Government Indian Agent. General Wiley Thompson, summoned Seminole chiefs to sign a treaty of immediate emigration. Osceola advanced to the table, contemptuously drove his sheath knife through the paper. General Thompson threw him in chains. Osceola was shortly set free, slew General Thompson. President Jackson promptly launched the Second Seminole War. Quartering the tribe's women and children back in the swamps, Osceola led 1,600 braves in a guerrilla warfare which completely baffled the far larger forces of Federal troops...
Newell Paige, a rising young surgeon, was assisting his admired senior, Dr. Endicott. at a difficult operation. Dr. Endicott was more worried about the tottering market than about the job in hand. He made a fatal blunder; the patient died. Paige, horrified, took the blame, left town, threw up his career, changed his name, brooded, talked to his dog. When he met the dead patient's daughter it was mutual love at a glance, but she found out who he was. Their ways parted-it seemed, finally. But thanks to a crippled old clergyman, who was a perfect dynamo...
...eleventh day of the revolution, Venizelos' generals threw in the sponge and scuttled for the Bulgarian frontier. Their automobile stuck in the Boz snowdrifts and they crossed the frontier on foot, their baggage on their backs. Rebel General Demetrius Kamenos told newshawks: "Our efforts to overthrow the Tsaldaris regime must, at least for the moment, be abandoned...
This defense, however, threw the Yale attack off balance even though the Elis are faster skaters. It was helped a great deal by Hovenanian, Moseley, and Ford, who have a happy faculty of being able to poke the puck out from under the Blue sticks...
From the left, Professor Jesse Homer Newlon of Teachers' College threw the issue to the convention: "We cannot and we will not remain neutral in the struggle of social forces going on in this country...