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...Widener's battle-scarred steps and will inevitably do more real good for the cause of peace. Professional patriots like the Legion cannot attack the gathering at Sanders as they handled rebellious Chicago school children, or obfuscate the appeal of men such as Prall and Darvall by throwing a cordon of tin-hatted warriors around the battlements of Memorial Hall. The quest for peace can gain real effectiveness if reason, not emotion, prevails...
...utility shortstop, broke his leg the other day, and Dave Shean, reserve second baseman, still lacks experience or power at the bat. There is little possibility of sparing Bilodeau, a proficient hurler, for duty on the hill, or Frank Owen, an outfielder last season, for work in the outer cordon...
...Japanese Navy went so far as to land marines in Tokyo and throw them in a protective cordon about the residence of Mr. Keisuke Okada, not because he rated this attention as Premier of Japan but because the Navy considers him one of its own as a retired Japanese Admiral...
Meantime Loeb's funeral arrangements made fantastic news. A hearse with name plates and licenses covered arrived at Stateville for the body. In Chicago, a force of detectives kept the public away from the funeral parlor, and a cordon of police turned all comers away from the cemetery. Thereupon a rumor swept through the city that Loeb had not been killed at all, that the whole tale of murder and burial was a fabrication by which his family had at last bought his way to freedom. That made Warden Ragen laugh. Said he: "You don't need...
...respect Warm Springs was different from the health resort he visited in previous years: on every driveway in the Foundation grounds CCC men were posted as traffic officers, letting no car enter without a pass from Foundation headquarters, while around the Little White House was drawn a cordon of U. S. Marines, a picked detachment from Quantico. Of late the Secret Service has been obviously anxious about its charge's safety...