Word: garrisoning
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Sullivan (N) defeated A. F. Dana '33, 15-7, 15-10, 15-8; O. M. Nichols '32 defeated Bates (N), 15-13, 12-15, 15-12, 15-6; R. F. Evans '33 defeated Garrison (N), 15-8, 15-9, 15-11; H. C. Dickinson '32 defeated Baker (N), 15-6, 13-15, 15-8, 15-10; Christopher Birckhead '33 defeated Barker...
...pied the old type and came forth clad in a cover of boiler-room Roman the better to face hard facts. In every case, the age has made the magazine not the magazine the age. For with the passing of personal journalism and the great tradition of William Lloyd Garrison and Horace Greeley, the American press lost its crusading temper. Editors took it as their business astutely to tell their readers only what they liked to hear. When the old-fashioned virtues became museum-pieces, "Vanity Fair" and "Life" were careful merely to raise an eyebrow but never to frown...
...Tientsin, second largest Chinese port, a Chinese mob of 2,000 clashed with Chinese police near the borderline between the Chinese City and the Japanese Concession. Arrested mobsmen swore later that they had been paid $40 Mex. ($10) each by Japanese agents provocateurs. However this might be the Japanese garrison commander repulsed rioters from the vicinity of the Japanese concession with a warning burst of machine gun fire, then unlimbered his field pieces and dropped 40 small explosive shells in the Chinese quarter of Tientsin...
Major Bray, popular Asuncion Garrison Commander, promised that the Army and Navy (five river gunboats) would preserve peace without butchery-at least without butchering students of good family. Vice President Emiliano Gonzalez Navero automatically became Provisional President, promised that Congress would investigate the ousted President's acts.* In jig time the No. 7 Revolution to force out a Constitutional President in South America since Bolivia made No. 1, subsided for the week. Observers scanned the troubled continent, saw only three republics where revolt has not successfully raised its head: two-faced Colombia†; cattle-rich little Uruguay; oily Venezuela...
...went back to their country with new ideas of democracy. Republican and Communist ideas have seeped south from China proper. Rebellion began against the autocratic power of the mandarins some years ago, became a rebellion against France. First shots were fired more than two years ago when an Annamite garrison at Yen Bay on the China frontier mutinied and killed their French officers. Since then secret agents have discovered Communist "cells" in almost every native battalion, in almost every village. France smote hard. French troops and a regiment of the Foreign Legion were rushed from Syria. Mme Guillotine raised...