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...newsmen further learned that the Coolidge fishing costume was as follows: last year's Western (high-heeled) boots, khaki trousers, khaki shirt, slicker, last year's Western ("ten-gallon...
...smile that verges easily into a sneer, a peculiar hypnotic stare, and a pantherlike bound are other useful attributes of Comrade Krylenko. On the first day of the Shahkta Trial he strode in wearing what U. S. citizens would call a hunting costume: khaki coat and breeches, soft roll collar, homespun stockings, hobnail shoes. To be sure all Russians present in the Hall of Columns were roughly attired; but Hunter Krylenko's costume seemed significant. Within a few hours he had wrung confessions from three small-fry technicians which should set them before a firing squad, and ever since...
...very difficult to decide upon a new uniform, however, since all-Crimson outfits would scarcely be suitable. If khaki were to be used, the Harvard organization would be trespassing on military grounds. Tonight the musicians will seek a solution for their problem...
Nicaraguans in smart khaki uniforms and armed with rifles, machine guns and dynamite bombs, lay in ambush on the heights commanding a narrow defile in the Nicaraguan mountains. Soon Captain Richard Livingston, U. S. M. C., commenced to lead through the defile an expeditionary force of 200 U. S. Marines, 200 Nicaraguan National Guardsmen, and 200 pack mules. Purpose: To capture Quilali, the remote war base of the recalcitrant General Augusto Calderon Sandino whose men were ambushing the defile. Reason: The Sandino troops have been declared outlaws and bandits. Cause: Sandino and his men were the only Nicaraguan faction which...
Chiang Looms. Marshal Chiang Kaishek, a bantam weight, trim-figured "Nationalist," who disdains pomp and affects a simple khaki uniform, loomed, last week, as likely to be first in the field of springtime civil war. His personal headquarters are at the great seaport Shanghai; but he has recently been chosen the civil and military head of the "Nationalist Government of China," a group of politicians and generals with headquarters at Nanking, nearby. Last week this group were preparing to hold, early in January, a plenary session of the Nationalist party congress?to concoct war plans. Since there was danger, however...