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...recognition by the U. S., a General Manuel Orellana rushed with troops out of Fort Matamoras where he was commandant, booted out Acting President Palma, took the office himself. A half-hour's gun play left 57 persons killed or wounded. During the ruction somebody killed Gen eral Mauro de Leon, who as No. 1 Designate, should have succeeded ailing President Chacon but for the fact that he had recently accepted a cabinet post as Minister of War, was therefore ineligible under the Guatemalan Constitution. The U. S. State Department was in a tight place. After the revolution...
...grew by meeting real issues. He flayed cardplaying (bridge). He was alarmed by this new thing called movies, He flayed parents who let "boys 12 years old send flowers to little girls and go in carriages to escort them to balls." (He has now abandoned this gen- eral lire, doubtless because he finds the root-trouble is much deeper.) The man's fame grew by books, simple, devotional, polished. Largely distributed through the Y. M. C. A., The Manhood of the Master, The Meaning of Prayer and others have reached a total sale of some 1,000,000 copies...
Smedley Darlington Butler Jr., son of the famed, gimlet-eyed Brig.-Gen- eral of Marines, was arrested for motoring 65 m. p. h. through Salem, N. J., fined $10 by Justice of the Peace Elizabeth Smith...
...congressman since 1913, Chairman Graham has worked through the rise of Dry sentiment which resulted in the 18th Amendment. Looking back over his legislatice career, he could pick out these dates as most significant in the history of Fed eral Prohibition...
...occasion, near the front, Major Hurley failed to salute General Pershing. The A. E. F. commander ordered him back, berated him. Six years later Mr. Hurley, civilian, burst jovially in upon General Pershing in his Washington office, defied being made to salute again. Gen eral Pershing was amused...