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...censors and frontier guards at risk of life and limb. These smuggled words are the very avatar of Spanish honor. They are the stenographic minutes of the successful but mercilessly suppressed plea which Don José Sanchez Guerra, four times Prime Minister of Spain, made to a court martial in Valencia, before whom he stood accused of High Treason (TIME, Dec. 9). The 70-year-old rebel is living quietly in Madrid today with his daughters, and when he goes walking is sometimes cheered by irrepressible students of the University of Madrid who shout, "Long live Sanchez Guerra! Death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Blinding Flash | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

...After disturbances a fortnight ago Haiti was last week quiescent. Political organizations asked President Hoover to supply U. S. supervision for the April elections, as was done last year in Nicaragua. Arrests were only for violation of the 9 p. m. curfew under martial law. President Borno's daughter Madeleine was ceremoniously taken to wife by Daniel Brun, architect. Additional Marines dispatched aboard the U. S. S. Wright were diverted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the U. S. House of Representatives moved to give President Hoover the investigating commission he had asked for (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Montezuma, Tripoli & Beyond | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Port-au-Prince customs house, under U. S. control, native employes rioted, broke office furniture and equipment, manhandled U. S. agents. A mob gathered before the National City Bank branch, jeered, threw rocks. Promptly the U. S. High Commissioner, Brig. General John Henry Russell of the Marine Corps, declared martial law, stationed Marines with machine guns on President Borno's palace lawn. President Borno announced that he would not seek a third term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Black Friction | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...capital, Nanking, no one knew whether or not to believe reports that President Chiang had resigned. Martial law was in effect. Several mutinous army divisions were menacing the capital. China was another name for Anarchy. In the vast city of Shanghai, peopled by nearly two million Chinafolk, it was impossible to take a train or send a telegram to Nanking, Peiping or Hankow, "Chicago of China." Wires and rails had been cut by men with guns who might be described as soldiers, mutineers, revolutionaries or bandits as one pleased. They all looted indiscriminately. Chaos grew so complete that leading Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 400 Million Humiliations | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

Playing for the Cadets were C.D. Coady '28, J.P. Crosby '28, and J.L. Combs '26; in the Battery A loneup R.F. Cordingley '25 and C.H. Bradford '26 saw action. Martial strains from competing bands added to the excitement of the traditional contest, which was attended by large representations from both camps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE FORMER HARVARD STARS IN BATTERY A-CADETS FRACAS | 11/29/1929 | See Source »

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