Word: againe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶Spirited was the report of Superintendent of Prisons Sanford Bates who called for the "professionalization of prison management." In ironic statistics he suggested his difficulties: "8,563 parole cases came before the parole board, of which the Superintendent of Prisons was by law a member. If he sat every...
Ha, Ha, Ha! Comrade Litvinov's real reply to Statesman Stimson came not by note, but in a gala speech before the Soviet central executive committee, to which he invited the whole Moscow diplomatic corps. Such a chance to make game of Messrs. Hoover and Stimson, whose Gibson had...
On the north they suffered a supreme humiliation. Governor General Chang Hsueh-Liang of Manchuria Province capitulated through his emissaries at Nikolsk-Ussiriisk, Siberia, to the emissaries of Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maximovich Litvinov. Cowed by the Red Army's raid into Manchuria three weeks ago, Governor General...
In Paris, cocky William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling touched gloves again with Primo Carnera, the Brobdingnagian Italian carpenter who recently beat him on a foul (TIME, Dec. 9). In the clinches Stribling strained and sweated against a body 85 Ibs. heavier, 12½ in. taller than his own. In the sixth...
Thoughtfully picking his nose, Referee Jack Dempsey stood in the corner of a ring in Madison Square Garden while the announcer introduced two fighters. In this corner lantern-jawed Otto von Porat, Norwegian white hope. In this corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed...