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Tennessee's McKellar and Tennessee's Tyson had slipped home from the U. S. Senate to be there. Governor Horton and Hill McAllister, his political antagonist spoke, not on politics. No-one thought but of old-time "Uncle Alf" Taylor, who used to spin yarns over 40 years ago, and was still going strong...
Bystanders wondered why the lion bothers with such a tiny antagonist. Crowell Publishing Co. distributes its magazines in masses to the masses; is second only to the Curtis Publishing Co. in volume of circulation in the U. S. The Curtis magazines are: the Saturday Evening Post (2,795,388 copies); The Ladies Home Journal (2,498,310); Country Gentleman (1,459,154). Crowell challenges with Collier's (1,327,875) ; Woman's Home Companion (2,235,488) ; American Magazine (2,162,252). Crowell's three leading magazines lag behind Curtis's by a mere...
...scarcely be expected to grasp immediately the technical detail here involved, through which Dempsey protested to the Illinois Boxing Commission that he had won the fight. Dempsey knocked Tunney down. By the rules of the contest he should have walked immediately to a neutral corner and waited until his antagonist arose or was counted out. Instead he stood over him; went to the wrong corner. Thus five seconds were lost before he reached the neutral corner and the actual count began over the prostrate Tunney. Tunney rose after the ninth second. A boxer is knocked out after ten seconds. Actually...
...Administration formulated its instructions in terms of "tons" or "total tonnage"; whereas the British Government stated its demands in terms of "individual ships" or "numbers of ships." The ensuing and inevitable confusion was as much to be expected as though the Parley had been about "fruit," with one antagonist able to speak only in "bushels" and the other instructed solely in terms of "kinds of peaches" or "numbers of cherries...
...Catholic Church ever permitted churches to be used for such purposes?" Here we have a criticism of Mexican law, a sly dig at the Anti-Saloon League and a fervent affirmation of the spotless honor of the Church-all in two sentences. Bishop Kelley is a worthy antagonist for Mexico's special pleaders...