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Persistent newspaper pressure forced President Machado to order Major Ortiz before a court-martial. Meanwhile the fiery major showered Havana editors with challenges to duels. Editor Pizzi de Porras accepted "when and if the major's legal status is cleared." Prudent Editor Jose Ignacio Rivero replied to the major's seconds...
...Legation crumbled and blazed, the Hannas' pet green parrot had slipped from his cage, crawled down a ledge and flopped into the arms of an Army officer. Nerves stretched to the breaking point. Immediately after the shocks, the city had been put under martial law. No one rested, but soldiers relieved from digging in the ruins patrolled the city with fixed bayonets. Col. Frederic C. Bradman of the Marines ordered the patrols to shoot all stray dogs on sight (fear of rabies) and anyone caught looting. The crack of a sentry's rifle tumbled one man like...
...said the Manchester Guardian. In the House of Commons, Dominion Secretary Thomas announced that he had received "a most painful surprise." Although U. S. payments were promised, New South Wales bonds dropped on Wall Street from 62½ to 56. Outraged Australians talked darkly of putting the whole state under martial law. Members of the Commonwealth Parliament from northern New South Wales and the Riverina district threatened, like Yancey of Alabama,* to secede...
...work and the cessation of unemployment benefits. . . . The unemployed are to be drafted not only for work in their own trades but to other work. . . . No excuse for refusal to work, with the exception of illness, sup ported by a medical certificate, should be considered." In other words martial-industrial...
...then resumed a tour of some 35 concerts into the midwest.* Pianist Zecchi's friends say that he is a shy, serious young person who sometimes wishes he had gone in for political economy instead of music. His musical instincts developed first. At 12 he had written a martial chorus called New Italy, dedicated it to the Italian Crown Prince, conducted it at a concert which the Crown Prince attended. After conservatory training in Rome, he went to Berlin to study intensively under famed Ferrucio Busoni, developed German ideas and a love for Schumann and Bach. In Milan Toscanini...