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Marched forth three U. S. battalions of the 33rd Infantry from Fort Clayton, five miles away. Commanded by General Martin, they proceeded to Panama City and dispersed the rioters with fixed bayonets. To fiery-hearted Latin Communists, who bared their chests and demanded to be stabbed or shot, the U. S. soldiers responded with proddings in another part of the anatomy and good natured jeers. As night fell, they planted machine guns at strategic points and awaited further developments...
While New York City was making a great rumpus over the choice of its candidates for Mayor, Cleveland made not half the fuss over the actual choice of its mayor. For the choice of the Cleveland mayor lay not with the people but with the city council. One mayor, Clayton C. Townes, resigned, and another, John D. Marshall, was promptly elected by the council. But the office of mayor in Cleveland is not panoplied and surrounded with the halo of office, for the city is governed by a city manager, at present able, active William R. Hopkins...
Forbes-Robertson supports Henry Irving in Much Ado About Nothing, also painting for Irving the church scene that hangs today in the Players' Club, N. Y. . . . A brother actor is stabbed by a madman. . . . Gilbert quarrels with Sullivan. . . . John Clayton solves the question of corresponding with inept authors: "My dear Sir, I have read your play. Oh! My very dear Sir! Yours truly, John Clayton." In 1885, Mary Anderson tours the U. S. "J. F.-R.," her leading man, is enchanted by American sunshine. General Sherman wrings his hand in St. Louis; General Lee's daughters charm...
...parties have had to arrange on 66 occasions unanimous consent agreements in order to get consideration for important legislation. In the 63rd Congress (1913-15) the Rivers and Harbors bill was debated 32 days; the Panama Canal bill 30 days; the Federal Trade Commission bill 30 days; the Clayton Act 21 days and then for 9 days more, after it came from conference. As a result of this condition, the present rule for a deferred cloture by a two-thirds vote was adopted (1917. Yet, immediately afterwards, six important appropriation bills were killed by filibuster...
Eugene Morehead Armfield, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N. C., Romance Languages; Arthur Watson Bromage, Wesleyan University, Conn., Warehouse Point, Conn., Government; Arthur Barton Brown '25, Roxbury, Mathematics; Edward Newcomb Brush, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt., Philosophy; George Lyle Church, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Dorchester, Botany; Clayton Dion Craig, University of South Dakota, Watertown, Economics; David Mitchel Dougherty, University of Delaware, Wilmington, Del., English; Edward French Dow, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., Government; Henry Matran Eller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., Classics; Raymond Matthew Fuoss '25, Altoona, Pa., Chemistry; Stowell Coolidge Goding, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., Romance Languages; Granvyl...