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...seargeants-at-arms at least, the most fortuitous location for the Republican stronghold. Most of the candidates, it appears, are like so many tares scattered among the grain growers. And if the one hundred thousand embattled farmers which Governor McMullen intends to head in their frontal attack next week are not a battalion of Grim Reapers as far as the Hoover cause is concerned, they have in the bag, at least, the easily sown kernels of discontent. Governor McMullen feels that the farmers, asserting themselves before the Wall Street gang, can reap at least their political harvest, but the callous...
...disorder, street-cars were besieged, and their trolleys disconnected. One of the Yale men was speedily arrested and led jail-wards, but this act served only to center the attention of the crowd upon the police officers and a force of rescuers marched in pursuit of the captive. A frontal assault upon the New Haven police headquarters, covered by a brief barrage of brick-bats, was repulsed with the loss of several more prisoners. Still unqualified, the student forces dispatched skirmish parties to create a diversion. This was done effectively by the turning in of a false fire alarm...
...immediate reply of Signor Mussolini to this frontal attack was a speech to his Cabinet Council in which he said that "If the State does not accept . . . the duty ... of integral preparation of future citizens ... it purely and simply gambles away its right to existence...
Yesterday. The Anti-Saloon League, in convention, voted to forego the undercover method of ensuring enforcement by exerting strong pressure on Government officials, a method used so effectively by the late Wayne B Wheeler. Hereafter it will make a frontal attack with publicity, educational campaigns, and an attempt to answer and condemn all "wet" literature and periodicals. This change is hardly the result of the Hearst disclosures, but springs from the general public feeling against high-handed bureaucracy. Certainly it will ease the hearts and slow the pens of many who thought the League was leagued with the Devil...
Chiang Kai-shek explained his plan. It depended on his ability to fire his 10,000 soldiers with sufficient enthusiasm to follow him in a direct frontal attack on the walled city of Waichow during which they would nearly all most certainly be killed...