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...evening last fortnight some 200 University of Mississippi students stood about watching a dummy burning high on their campus flagpole. It was an effigy of Mississippi's stormy, scarfaced (from a pistol-butt) little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. No riotous impulse but a well-organized gesture was the effigy-burning, representing student disapproval of Governor Bilbo's lavish dismissal last summer of 179 officials and faculty members in four of Mississippi's state-controlled institutions (University of Mississippi, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Mississippi State College for Women, State Teachers College...
Near Flerkimer, N. Y., Oliver J. Duff, camping out, was annoyed by a cow, hit it with the butt of his rifle, was shot...
Near Jamestown, N. Y., Tearle H. George, fireman, caught a muskrat in a trap, prodded it with the butt of his shotgun, was shot in the abdomen...
...Haven, Nov. 3--Yale's million-dollar Gothic buildings were made the butt of an attack today by the Harkness Hoot, literary magazine sponsored by two Eli undergraduates. Today's issue was the second the Hoot has published...
...Rutherford Stuyvesant, U. S. Vice Consul at Calcutta, gunning in Jalaswar Jungle, met a large bear, fired at close range, failed to kill. The wounded beast charged him, knocked him down, cuffed and bit him until Stuyvesant beat on its nose with his gun butt. Then (the Associated Press said) "the animal, in considerable pain, ran away." Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman who went to gaol for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate, was admitted with his wife to private audience before Pope Pius XI the day after they had been presented to Prime Minister Mussolini...