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...cars, they rushed to the Salamis naval arsenal. A high ranking officer shot the sentry dead. Five warships including the two finest in the Greek Navy, the armored cruiser Averoff and the cruiser-minelayer Helle, were tied up at the arsenal. A brisk skirmish took place with the loyal garrison, but the ships were finally able to load shells...
...Owns the American Press?" is the subject or an address which Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the "Nation," will deliver before a special meeting of the Liberal Club in Lowell House on Tuesday...
When the Civil War came, Congress spent $500.000 to garrison Fort Jefferson with 500 troops, more than 100 guns. For four years it stood stanch against the chance that the Confederacy might somehow build a strong navy or conclude an alliance with a potent naval power. Meantime time it served as a Federal penitentiary. At one time its shark-filled moat encircled more than 1,000 prisoners. In July 1865 it received, with a sentence of life imprisonment, Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd of Maryland...
...story of the illegal search for political mastery followed the same course in the mid-19th Century that it follows today. Like Adolf Hitler, Louis Napoleon staged his own opéra boufle "beer hall putsch." Louis' fiasco consisted of a ridiculous attempt to rally the garrison town of Strasbourg behind him for an invasion of Louis Philippe's France. And, like Hitler, Louis spent a period in jail, at the French fortress of Ham, where he managed to be solaced by his serving maid. Again, like Hitler, Louis talked, before his term as President of the short...
...department in the legal complexities of collective bargaining than Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings. In his opinion, NLRB had no case. So the matter remained at a standstill for two months until, fortnight ago, President Roosevelt sent Francis Beverley Biddle of Philadelphia in to succeed Lloyd Kirkham Garrison as the board's chairman...