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...TIME, Jan. 6 et seq.), when some 200 Congressmen on the floor suddenly threw their heads back, clapped their knees, laughed uproariously. In silence they had heard the Coast Guard accused of "bloody murder." Loud had been their applause when speakers defended the service and its law-enforcing methods. But what now struck them as funny was an explanation of why Coast Guardsmen drink the liquor they seize in the service of their country. The explainer was Representative Car roll L. Beedy of Maine, a consistent dry upon whose bald head Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, the Coast Guard...
Kellogg Pact to make it the basis for cutting her cruiser fleet from 70 to 50 ship?, which she is now ready to do according to an official statement earlier in the week by First Lord of the Admiralty Albert V. Alexander. The MacDonald memorandum threw cold water on the Tardieu proposal for a Mediterranean pact, and sidestepped the French project for a stronger League of Nations with the remark that the Kellogg Pact and the League Covenant may be considered "complementary." Ships...
...comparatively easy 20 minutes in the visitor's goal. Harvard, too, presented a strong defense and the Clubmen's famed forward line of Chase. Hilliard and Curtis had a hard time trying to break through. Several long shots by Stubbs and Cunningham provided the only scares the Crimson threw into the former University stars while H. Bigelow's lone sally through the Harvard sextet was the Clubmen's only threat...
Half way through the film came a spurt of flame, a cloud of acrid black smoke from the projection booth. The cinema operator's assistant, quick-witted, tore the roll of blazing film from his machine ran with it to the manager who threw it out of a window. He was not in time to avert panic. Children, nerves atingle from the film play, screamed in terror, stampeded for the only exit they knew, the main door. Someone slipped...
...Atlanta, Tom McGee, ex-convict, threw a brick through a store window, stole a shirt, reported to police. He told the judge that while in prison camp he had grown so fond of feeding the hogs that he wanted to go back. The judge acquiesced...