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...John Brown, after murdering five exponents of Negro slavery. shut himself up in a garrison at Osawatomie and was later taken prisoner, tried found guilty, executed, made the subject of a song. In 1859 at Osawatomie, famed Horace Greeley addressed the convention which was beginning to organize the Republican Party in Kansas. In 1910 at Osawatomie, Theodore Roosevelt, back from hunting wild animals in Africa, made a speech on "New Nationalism," which loudly thumped the doings of his former proteg; William Howard Taft, and led to the forming in 1912 of the Progressive or "Bull Moose" party...
Responsibility. The presence of General Sandino in the vicinity of Ocotal with a large, well-armed force was reported over a fortnight ago by the Associated Press. Yet the U. S. garrison at Ocotal continued to number only 39 marines; and observers agreed that they would almost certainly have been wiped out last week had not U. S. scouting planes chanced to witness the attack by General Sandino and summoned heavy bombers from Managua, 110 miles distant (a five-day march). Who was responsible for stationing-so puny a U. S. force in a region known to be enemy-infested...
Meanwhile the police continued so outnumbered that those who sought to charge or quell the crowds, were mostly seized, pummeled, stripped of their uniforms and turned loose in the indignity of underwear. The garrison at Vienna refused to fire upon "our brothers." When fire engines clanged forth to the Justiz-Palast irate workers stormed and smashed the apparatus. Meanwhile labor organizations had declared a general strike, thus paralyzing communication. Telegraphs and telephones were silent. Trains, Danube steamers and even the German-owned air service were stopped. For 48 hours news from Vienna came only in the form of smuggled rumors...
Chancellor Seipel, barricaded with his Cabinet in the Parliament building, could at first do no more than secretly despatch couriers to loyal outlying garrisons where troops might be found to take the place of the obstinately passive garrison at Vienna...
...names of the nine Assistant Head Ushers from the Junior class were announced last night by Madison Sayles '27, chairman of the Class Day Committee. They are: H. C. Bartlett, H. W. Bragdon, Langdon Dearborn, D. E. Garrison, A. A. Holbrook, E. B. Jackson, V. O. Jones, J. L. Pool, C. A. Pratt, H. W. Sayles, and Moses Wiliams...