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Last week the only one of former "Red" Sacasa's former officers who was still fighting U. S. Marines?and has fought them for five long years???was General Augusto Cesar Sandino. During the electoral campaign General Sandino, who was not officially a candidate, abruptly proclaimed his rebel camp the "Capitol of Nicaragua." Not wishing to be bombed or to feel a Marine's bayonet between his ribs. General Sandino kept secret the whereabouts of his "Capitol," well hidden in the Nicaraguan mountains near Honduras. Announced he: "I do not recognize Sacasa as the winner of election. I shall...
March: Faced by Red riots in French Indo-China, the Premier convened the High Colonial Council in Paris for the first time in three years and studied critically the results of guillotining 700 native Communists in the past two years???with the result that Minister of Colonies Paul Reynaud is now in the Far East "sympathetically examining native grievances...
...afternoon tea. There the judges and trustees (of which Professor Savage is one) of the American Academy in Rome inspect each individual. The judges' choice, traditionally a personable as well as talented young man, receives from the Academy a studio and residence on Rome's Janiculum Hill for three years???an honorarium valued at about $8,000?plus $500 in traveling expenses...
...there is no way to get there, no cheap convenient way!" objected the Marshal. "We must build a subway." They told him that would take years???out of the question! He waxed warm; they too. At last the Marshal yielded...
...House member with the longest consecutive service?31 years???is Iowa's Representative Gilbert N. Haugen, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture...