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Such is his personal record. And please don't forget . . . that right from the start of the Russian civil war 80% of the officers of the General Staff of the Russian Army served with the Reds, and first thing they did was to abolish all "freebooting" and create a regular Red Army...
...Post has Hearst's International News Service. It prints no race results, competes with the News-Sun for moral support among Waukegan townsfolk by publishing an occasional editorial that ends: "ABOLISH THE RACE TRACKS!" And it gives plenty of space to churches, clubs, society, staff pictures of local bigwigs...
...Abolish all tariffs between nations in this hemisphere over a five-year period...
...State College. Chicago was beaten six times, North Carolina State eight times. Because "the peculiar advantages of football [to a college] arise only from winning football," Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins concluded that he must either: 1) hire a winning team (against Big Ten rules), or 2) abolish football. Last December Dr. Hutchins and his trustees abolished football at Chicago...
...determined Scots. The Highland Association was rallying Scottish members of Parliament to protest a recent War Office order: "No more kilts will be issued until the war is over." For almost two centuries Scotsmen have struggled against what they regard as repeated efforts by the War Office to abolish their national dress, worn by the Argyll and Sutherland, Gordon, Cameron and Sea forth Highlanders and the redoubtable Black Watch.* Scots now have to admit the War Office's contention that the kilt is poor protection against poison gas; that its pleats harbor cooties; that when wet it galls...