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...inability of the Spaniards to quell the rebels in their area of Morocco caused grave apprehension in France and Italy. The map of Northern Africa depicts four areas whose inhabitants are under the suzerainty of foreign Powers: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya. Morocco is mainly under French dominion and is a remarkable example of how low the great Shereefian Empire has fallen; for, still a monarchy, it is subjected to the French Republic and is now of little or no political importance. Algeria and Tunisia are likewise French possessions, while the greater part of Libya belongs to Italy under the name...
...Senate, a Republican, mounted the rostrum and attempted to call the meeting to order and proceed with the Appropriation Bill. As the reading clerk began to read, a Democratic Senator snatched the Bill from his hands. A general battle of fisticuffs ensued which the Sheriff was obliged to quell. The incident passed...
...kept his rapier and his wits well sharpened. At an even earlier date, it was customary to rove over most of Europe in search of chance combats which were productive of much glory and honorable advancement. And later, when the New York Police Force had managed to quell the open warfare popular in the Bowery, it became the custom for warlike gentlemen imbued with the ideals of liberty and justice to go south and help the ineffective Latin-Americans throw off the yoke of the oppressor. Often enough, these soldiers of fortune ended their romantic careers against an adobe wall...
With this announcement, Secretary of War Weeks stamped out the many strange rumors which for more than a week had fed on the proposed sale of arms to Mexico (TIME, Jan. 7). The announcement, however, of the accomplished fact did not quell Congressional criticism...
...session will open with more than the usual amount of oratorical fulmination. The strongest spark firing the barrage which should rather successfully bury the really vital issue of tax reduction is the Mexican situation. The Administration has sold arms and ammunition to President Obregon who will use them to quell the de la Huerta insurrection...