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Early last September, filibustering Peruvians staged a private raid, seized Leticia. expelled the town's Colombian officials and called on all Peru to applaud their deed. Most of Peru applauded. The surge of patriotism was too strong to be resisted by President Luiz M. Sanchez Cerro of Peru, into whose tough little body would-be assassins have all too often fired bullets (TIME, March 14). By the end of last September both Colombia and Peru were mobilizing men, money and munitions. In Bridgeport, Conn, on Sept. 30, close-lipped Saunders Norvell, president of Remington Arms Co., exuberantly exclaimed...
...Widow on one hand, and the professor on the other. With two such old and experienced antagonists in the fray, the student, and especially one direct from preparatory school, stands little chance of making any kind of a showing. He can, as it were, only look on, and occasionally applaud when the Widow draws blood...
...apartment occupied by the Singing Boys. Hereafter whenever the choir stops long enough to set up housekeeping he will help in the kitchen, occasionally cook. Wilhelm Herp likes his new job. He can eat all day if he likes, and whenever he concocts anything the boys like especially they applaud him as vigorously as audiences applaud their singing...
Rose Bampton, a comely, full-voiced contralto from Buffalo, sang Laura in La Gioconda on the company's first Tuesday-night trip to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia Contralto Bampton had many friends to applaud her, to fill her dressing room with flowers. In Philadelphia she studied and often performed with the Curtis Institute of Music and the affiliated Philadelphia Grand Opera Company...
Disraeli would have had to applaud the agility with which Count Uchida has made use of China's convenient "fissiparous tendencies" to divide and rule. He would have applauded the creation of Manchoukuo, an officially independent state whose advantages to Japan as a colony outweigh the responsibilities. But international ethics have advanced since the death of the pomaded Earl. The right of self-determination for any people, even one with fissiparous tendencies, is one that the average citizen of most countries believes in heartily. Even Count Uchida put forward as chief excuse for the invasion of Manchuria the idea that...