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...Guardsmen were sent to help them keep the peace. With the water rising 2 ft. an hour and the rain still falling, Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy'') Chandler telephoned President Roosevelt that the emergency had reached such proportions that Federal troops were needed. For stricken Louisville he declared martial law. The whole nation was given front row seats at the Ohio valley's tragedy through Louisville radio station WHAS...
...German lawyer successfully defended Salengro with the following amazing plea to the German court martial: "Meine Herren, you must not sentence this Frenchman to death, for, France is a gallant country, and had a German prisoner in France committed the offense with which Salengro is charged we would consider it our duty to bow deeply before...
During Palestine's recent period of martial law, all tourist visas were stopped. In the case of neither Palestine nor India, however, have any major U. S. press services experienced difficulty providing visas for their correspondents. Says New York World-Telegram's, Reporter Ekins...
...White House in Washington last week Eleanor Roosevelt lay on her back recovering from grippe and thinking kind thoughts of the world-kind thoughts of the venerable G. A. R., whose martial music she could hear through her window; kind thoughts of Steve Vasilakos, the peanut merchant on whose behalf she interceded for the second time when police tried again to oust his pushcart from the White House corner; kind thoughts of her own husband. For as Mrs. Roosevelt reported in My Day, the President "asked Mrs. Scheider who was doing my column and she said, 'Mrs. Roosevelt...
...Fleet in European waters; after a heart attack; in Boston. As a Naval observer in China and St. Petersburg, he became so vociferous a critic of the efficiency of the U. S. Navy that in 1908 his friend Roosevelt I had to save him from court martial. During the War he commanded 373 ships, 81,000 men. Said he two years ago: "The sea is fine when viewed from shore . . . but I never liked going...