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Today is Army Day for Harvard, and the R.O. T.C. Field Artillery men will put on their show on Soldiers Field with the usual military fanfare of uniforms, martial music, and even gun firing, although this will be restricted to pistol shooting and shelling from the miniature trainer guns...
...built to turn these swamplands into fertile fields, with 24 rich cities. Unfortunately the Romans, then barbarians and innocent of their later culture, sacked the cities and killed off the Volsci. About 600 B. c. they were first smitten by dread malaria. Of these dire swamps wrote Vergil, Juvenal, Martial, Horace, Ovid and others, including Madame de Stael and more recently Gabriele D'Annunzio. Julius Caesar made elaborate plans for reclamation, Augustus and even Nero had vast labors performed, but in vain. The Catholic popes, notably that enlightened Medici, His Holiness Leo X, then took over the unequal struggle...
Meanwhile, since May 1937, according to accounts in the Soviet press, the example set by Stalin in arraigning as traitors to Russia her greatest military leaders has been followed by an epidemic of soldiers denouncing their officers before Red Army courts-martial, these made up of other officers afraid not to convict lest they in turn be denounced, no matter how flimsy the evidence or grudge. Firing squads have been crackling all over Russia at such a rate that even the official Red Army organ Krasnaia Zvezda ("Red Star") has expressed concern at the "great depletion of regimental, brigade...
Murder is not a capital crime in Lower California, but General Contreras took no chances in waiting for a trial. All the next night a court martial sat. At sunrise the prisoner. Private Juan Castillo Morales, 24, was hustled to the cemetery on a nearby hill, told to run for his life. A firing squad of his fellow soldiers finished him quickly...
Rumania woke up next morning to find its Constitution suspended and all power in the hands of King Carol, who had proclaimed nationwide martial law, replaced the prefects of Rumanian districts with the local military commanders, and ordered all Rumanian citizens having arms or ammunitions to surrender them to His Majesty's Government. In morning papers, Rumanians read that shortly before dawn the Orthodox Church's venerable Patriarch Miron Cristea, 69, had been sworn in by King Carol, 44, as Premier of what His Majesty was pleased to call a "National Concentration Government...