Word: consulation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Braintree murders on the following evidence: Factory-window witnesses, who had previously identified other Italians as participants in the crime, swore that Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti were the killers. But, 20 Italians said they had purchased eels from Mr. Vanzetti at the hour of the crime, and the Italian consul in Boston swore that Mr. Sacco had been in his presence at that time. However, the police who arrested them swore that they had drawn guns. This was interpreted as "evidence of guilt." The jury was asked to do its duty as "did our boys in France"-an effective plea...
...Benny." To delighted correspondents at Shanghai, Lieutenant Commander Roy Campbell Smith, U. S. N., told last week with infectious gusto how, as Commander of the destroyer Noa, he had ordered the bombardment of Nanking (TIME, April 4) in order to save the lives of the U. S. Consul and other U. S. citizens beseiged in the city. The spectre of Commodore Dewey, and his ringing command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley!" kindled in the correspondents' imagination as their pencils raced to take down the words of hearty, beaming Lieutenant Commander Smith...
...Well now, when I saw the Consul's signal of distress I said to myself: 'Here's where I get either a medal or a court martial.' So I leaned over the rail and said, 'Let 'er go, Benny...
Disgrace. While U. S. and British guns were thundering at Nanking, Lieut. K. Araki of the Imperial Japanese Navy went ostentatiously unarmed into Nanking with a small detachment of Japanese sailors, likewise unarmed, in an effort to rescue the Japanese Consul in which he was successful...
There are tremendous vistas of international complication in the present Eastern situation, and those on the scene, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, Admiral Hough, and the former consul at Nanking, who is rabidly anti-Cantonese, are not those to dictate our policy, for they are partisan individuals, and very possibly frightened ones...