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Problem of the maneuvers was how best to harass, surprise a huge, unwieldy advancing army (like the French or Russian) with a small, extremely mobile force. For two days the "Blue" army, (one division) inflating itself to look as much as possible like 50,000 Frenchmen, advanced slowly, methodically against the reds. Third day maneuvers went into reverse. General Heye, chief umpire, commander of the Reichswehr, announced that "the Red army has had enough practice in retreating," ordered the Blues to show their practice in retreat. At week's end maneuvers ended in a perfect holocaust of fire. Soldiers...
...Gillette's troubles. Last week Segal Lock & Hardware Co., potent gadgetmaker, was well along with an advertising campaign for Segal Razor Blade, patents pending. While this new blade is being introduced only in New York at present, Segal plans a national campaign in the near future, may harass both Gillette and Auto Strop...
Academic freedom again on the block Harvard sent President Lowell on one side of the Sacco Vanzetti case, which rocked five continents, and Professor Felix Frankfurter to testify on the other. Totally disagreed, the two did not attempt to harass each other's professional status...
...once. Small groups took the air to learn the countryside, to spot enemy encampments. Next day larger squadrons rose out of Mather Field to smash Southern Pacific R. R. yards, to destroy bridges and warehouses and ammunition dumps, to hop over fields and fences, highways and houses, to harass the invaders with bomb and bullet...
...British government's Indian salt monopoly and tax. This symbolic act would inaugurate the Civil Disobedience campaign, long contemplated by Saint Gandhi as a new, potential means of protest against British rule (TIME, Jan. 13 et ante). Thereafter, countless adherents of Saint Gandhi would be expected to harass the British government with similar infractions...