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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Archangel was captured by the Allies who immediately pushed south on five disconnected fronts. When the Armistice came, they found themselves frozen in for the winter. In January, with the temperature 30° below zero, the Red Army assaulted them, drove them back. The wounded died from exposure. Machine guns would work only from heated blockhouses. A bare hand touching metal was seared as by fire. Snow and continual darkness fought for the enemy. On March 30 occurred the "mutiny" of Company I of the 339th Infantry. So great was the demoralization of all troops that withdrawal was ordered with...
Last summer a Michigan commission searched for the rest of the lost bodies. With the greatest difficulty 86 were found; eleven were left in France. Russian peasants were hostile, had to be bribed to reveal each grave. One town the Soviet Government, cooperating with the U. S., threatened to plow up in toto unless its inhabitants gave up the U. S. dead. In another case a Russian woman had nursed, fallen in love with and then buried a wounded U. S. officer. First she tried to misguide the searchers from the grave. When they found it by an ikon...
...long time since trust-busting was a front-page activity of the U. S. Government. Last week, however, three potent U. S. corporations found themselves involved in anti-trust proceedings. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell filed suit against Warner Brothers and William Fox and announced a general investigation of the pooled patents held by Radio Corp. of America. This announcement closely followed a ruling in which the U. S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, declared that Radio Corp. was following monopolistic practices in its licensing policy...
Judge Woodrough found the two distillers not guilty. He opined that the agents could enter a house without warrant only if they actually saw the felons at work. Said he: "The entry into the dwelling house and the search of it were unjustifiable and illegal . . . therefore I have ordered the evidence found to be suppressed...
...clubs under the House System and at that time President Lowell in speaking before various undergraduate organizations assured their members that an effort would be made to solve this problem by supplying food from the College kitchens to the various club houses. This plan has since been found to be impractical. Nothing definite can be said of the fate of the clubs at present except for the fact that those in charge of working out the House Plan are in sympathy with the general aims of the clubs and appreciate their potential value in bringing men from the different Houses...