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Secretary of the Navy Adams last week called upon Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., for a written explanation of a speech he made in Pittsburgh last fortnight. Comparing Nicaraguan elections with Philadelphian, General Butler was reported to have said: "We Marines took charge of two elections in Nicaragua. The fellow we had in there nobody liked, 'but he was a useful fellow- to us ... so we declared the opposition candidates bandits. Then 400 natives were found who would vote for the proper candidate. Notice was given of opening the polls five minutes beforehand...
...Major sport teams, with the exception of hockey, lowered expenses during the year. Baseball and crew expenditures were reduced approximately $5,000 each: track about $13,000: University football $26,000: and minor sports approximately...
Instrumental Clubs Program Brattle Hall 1. Veritas March Densmore On the Pier Goldman Banjo Club 2. Johnny Harvard Chorus of the Bacchantes Gounod Vocal Club 3. "Harvard Club Special". Mr. G. W. Briggs '31 and Mr. R. G. Edwards '31. 4. Frasquita Lehar Waltz in A Major Brahms Mandolin Club 5. Mr. DeWitt Stetten '30 6. Russian Fantasy arr. by Lange Why Was I Born? Kern Gold Coast Orchestra Intermission--Ten Minutes 7. Ein Karleksmatt I Barcelona Lindberg Selections from "Pinafore" Sullivan Mandolin Club 8. Mr. John S. B. Archer '30 9. Glorious Forever Rachmaninoff Old Man Noah...
...Soviet Russia has staged one major punitive raid into one Chinese province (Manchuria) and then withdrawn all her troops (TIME...
Packed in his five carloads of laboratory material were tons of stalks of a common, ubiquitous weed: goldenrod. Goldenrod, announced Inventor Edison, seemed a likely U. S. weed from which to produce the object of his major research in the past two years: Rubber...