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Ford Throws Down the Gauntlet...
...candidates in the $1000 class, to compete with General Motors and Chrysler. This bit of information adds to the general gayety of the situation and at the same time throws a new light on announcement of the Dearborn don. It now appears that Ford may have thrown down a gauntlet which will result in an unhappy competitive situation in the automobile industry with ruinous results of earnings...
From time to time a rock crashed through a window of the Chronicle's office. Bomb threats directed at "the capitalistic sheet'' grew dire. Employes were threatened by telephone at home. But unarmed and unguarded. Chronicle reporters went about their business. Chronicle circulation huskies ran the daily gauntlet of labor hoodlums...
...Beta Kappa key. Sportswriters named him on All-Eastern football teams. Varsity swimmers and trackmen chose him captain. His Psi Upsilon fraternity brothers made him their president. His classmates, who had already elected him their president, put him in the presidency of their honor society, Casque & Gauntlet. Dartmouth at large chose him to head the student governing body. When he went up before a Rhodes Scholarship committee last autumn, it saw at once that here was just the kind of man for whom Cecil Rhodes had set up his trust...
...Cuban utilities trust went on strike and the government was forced to take over the company; yesterday morning all employees in the departments of Communications, Interior, Justice, Public Works, Instruction, and Health went on strike. Senor Guiteras then retired into his stronghold in the provinces. With the gauntlet thus thrown down to them, the conservatives were forced to take vigorous action. Hevia was removed from office and the strong man of the Nationalist party, Colonel Mendieta, was put into the presidency, while Batista concentrated his troops in Camp Columbia and the city of Havana prepared for civil...