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Sheshuan (which one is at liberty to spell in almost any possible way. -Chechaouen, Chechouan, Shishawen, Sheshaun, Sheshuan, Chechaoen), which is the Riffian headquarters at the western end of their sausage, was bombed 17 times by the Sherifian Escadrille (volunteer American aviators) with the destruction of many buildings and the estimated killing of 100 Riffians...
...price cuts by Buick and Studebaker. Makers are now divided into two classes: those who manufacture their car parts, and those who assemble parts purchased from other concerns. Naturally, production costs of the first group are regularly under those of the second- a fact which is now beginning to spell disaster for assembling companies. Recent Studebaker advertising directed public attention to just this situation. Apparently the process of the big fish eating the little fish is to be resumed with increased force...
After the War came the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms?dyarchy.? The Amritsar affair in which hundreds of Indians were wantonly butchered caused Gandhi to begin his noncooperation movement. For a time, Das was heart and soul with Gandhi, and his fervor caused his incarceration for a brief spell at Alipore. Noncoöperation was soon proved to be leading nowhere. Of the 46 million Bengalese, not 10% voluntarily supported the movement; while an insignificant but dangerous section of the population thought non-coöperation the mildest and most absurd of protests. So long as the masses could bathe uninterruptedly...
...downfall of Patrick Kelly, 10-year-old orphan from New Haven, Conn., was tragic. Patrick had arrived in Washington with 21 textbooks on grammar and spelling, including a "dictionary" by Patrick Kelly, containing over 4,000 words hard to spell. Somehow he had overlooked "blackguard," and when the word-giver pronounced it, "blaggard," Patrick said, "Huh ?", and then spelled it just the way it sounded. Every one liked Patrick...
...following is the Pops Concert program for tonight: 1. Rackoczy March Berlioz 2. Overture to "Zampa" Herold 3. Excerpts Act III, "The Master-singers" Wagner 4. Tufts Songs a. Fight E. W. Hayes b. Spell It Out A. T. Williams c. Aren't You Glad? E. W. Newton 5. Largo, "From the New World" Symphony Dvorak 6. Spanish Dance, "Panaderos" Glazounov 7. Furlana from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli 8. Tufts Songs a. That Mascot P. B. Lewis b. Brown and Blue E. A. Newton c. Dear Alma Mater L. R. Lewis 9. Medley-Fantasia on Tufts Aira J. W. Morton...