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Meanwhile Chancellor Dollfuss had declared martial law, "yielding to popular demands for the restoration of the death penalty," as his Government neatly put it, adding: "The peaceful population of Austria naturally has nothing to fear. . . . On the other hand this measure is to be understood as meaning that henceforth perpetrators and abettors and participants in disgraceful and bloody crimes and violent acts menacing the public safety will not be able to reckon with the light penalty hitherto specified in our laws...
...Japanese Bruti who slew Premier Ki Inukai for his "excessive pacifism" (TIME, May 23, 1932) stood in the dock before the Naval Court Martial at Yokosuka naval base last week while their Japanese attorney, in his final defense plea, quoted adroitly from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar...
...plush hat of sandy hue above his leathery face, took the steps in a rolling cowboy gait. The one who looked like a church deacon, Clyde Herring of Iowa, marched along sedately. Wrinkled Albert George Schmedeman, who had been debating with himself all day whether or not to proclaim martial law in Wisconsin, looked troubled and tiny beside moose-tall William Langer of North Dakota, who chews cigars with the cellophane wrapper peeled halfway down and whose wheat embargo was one of the starkest symptoms of the matter they had all come to discuss. Accompanied by big, rawboned George Peek...
...steps of Memorial Hall at noon last Saturday. Speakers from the National Student League, the League for Industrial Democracy, and the Episcopal Theological Seminary hurled furious denunciations against war, against the CRIMSON, and against the Roosevelt administration, but there was no violence. The expected interference from the Martial Club, an organization that calls itself "pacifist but opposed to any form of demonstration," failed to materialize...
This coming Saturday afternoon the Army band will parade on Soldiers Field in all its resplendent garb and martial array, and the rival Harvard band will likewise march and will likewise suffer from the comparison, especially from the aspect of precision and novelty of performance. Admitting that the U. S. Military Academy would be a rather lofty standard to which the Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create...