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...clock yesterday morning Soldiers Field assumed a martial aspect superlatively compatible with its name, and the concrete walls of the Stadium witnessed a scene rivalling any gridiron contest in action and intensity, an exhibition which a spectator might have guessed to be either a celebration in honor of Lindbergh or a sham battle...
Composer Handel, martial, romantic, won fame for impressive oratorios, the best known among them being The Messiah, Samson, Judas Maccabaeus. Lately, led by the University of Gottingen, Germans have resurrected some of the operas their countryman used to compose, sometimes in a fortnight's time, for production at the Haymarket Theatre, in the London of Addison and Steele, Alexander Pope and George I, the music-loving Hanoverian...
...spot seems so typically American to Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army, as Chicago. So said the General at the Hotel La Salle last week, guest of the Military Intelligence and Reserve Officers associations. Stiff-jawed, military as a court-martial, Major General Summerall, warmly welcomed, rose, spoke crisp, West-Pointed sentences...
General Don Valerian Weylery Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi, was acquitted last week by a court-martial in Madrid of the charge (TIME, July 5), that he fomented a plot last summer to seize the Government. Citizens of the U. S. know that "Butcher" Weyler, 88, has not yet lived down the odium of his bloodthirsty governorship of Cuba (1896-97) - a direct and major cause of the Spanish-American War. From blood, oppression, graft, he wrung a fortune now one of the largest in Spain...
Shanghai. Martial Law was declared in the Chinese city, last week, by Chinese officers adherent to Chiang Kai-shek (see above). Their soldiers nabbed haphazard and executed approximately 100 "Reds"; and concurrently the intermittent "general strike" seemed to be petering out, with all but a few thousand factory hands back at work...