Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evan Speer '40 is Chairman of the affair, and assisting him on the Committee are Irving S. Michelman '39, John A. Rumsey '39, William P. Pennebaker '40, and David Henry '41. Plans for the decoration of the dance floor and other entertainments are under way, Speer said...
Strangest feature of the Changkufeng affair to Russian and outside observers was that during and after the border battles Russian press comment omitted all mention of the Soviet's famed "Red Napoleon," Marshal Vasily Bluecher, Commander in Chief of the Far Eastern Army. One yellow newsman, the Japanese Domei agency's Ihacha Hagueno, dared to flash the flat statement that Marshal Bluecher had been arrested. In retaliation, Soviet secret police pounced on Hagueno's Russian woman translator and clamped her into jail. Promptly Japanese newsorgans announced that Marshal Bluecher had been not only arrested but had committed...
...Next day, prices of the notes skyrocketed to 84, new 1938 high and 23¼ points above the previous day's close. The fact that price gyrations occurred several hours before official statements were issued prompted both SEC and the New York Exchange to start investigating the whole affair...
Thus the hero is placed where he has a perfect all-round view of the boss. He gets involved in Symmes's family quarrels, his feuds with vindictive Portygee workmen. Meanwhile, Bain has an affair with a schoolteacher, visits Portygee families, gathers a vast anti-Symmes lore. His complete triumph comes when he saves Symmes's life. By this time Bain has so far got the upper hand that he even has a sneaking affection for the mean old devil...
...Kirkland-Leverett affair combined flashes of good running and line play with many of the aspects of mass mayhem. The Rabbits, entering the game without the services of two regulars, were further disabled when Rich Rabenold, halfback, sprained his ankle in the first quarter...