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Like many another Rightist leader,Emilio Mola, 49, was not born in Spain. His father was a Spanish officer in Cuba, his mother Cuban. After a mildly distinguished career in the Spanish army he won distinction and his general's sash fighting Abd-el-Krim in Morocco in 1926. Just before Alfonso XIII's flight from Madrid, Emilio Mola was chief of police in Spain, won the title of "the most hated man in Spain" for ordering Civil Guards to fire on the students. No monarchist, he was placed on the retired list in the early years...
...carrying coals to Newcastle to point out that proctoring examinations is at best a difficult business. For at a time when students nerves are on the ragged edge, when Cambridge town reminds one of the fiery furnace of Biblical fame, and when the fate of a course or a career hangs in the balance of a short three hours, it seems obvious that the college officials must use kid gloves in handling the undergraduates, if the best results in the examinations are to be obtained. And kid gloves have not been much in evidence in the last few days...
...only as a politician but as a career colonial administrator did Theodore Steeg make his reputation. After serving as Minister of the Interior, to whom all French police are responsible, from 1912 through the War until 1920, he served as Governor-General of Algeria for four years, then was given the difficult task of succeeding France's late great colonial administrator, bristle-topped Marshal Louis Hubert Lyautey, as Resident General of Morocco. He did well enough in the four years he held the post to win him the task he was faced with last week, the most serious crisis...
...with fascist leanings have found Colonel François "Casimir" de la Rocque a weak reed to lean on. In recent months a much more potent fascist has appeared in the person of hulking, bull-voiced Jacques Doriot. A former mechanic and metalworker, son of a blacksmith, his political career has been irregular as his private life is blameless...
...triple skull fracture, was the result of being hit on the head by a baseball thrown by Pitcher Irving ("Bump") Hadley of the New York Yankees. Pitcher Hadley had hit Catcher Cochrane accidentally. Nonetheless, the mishap, which baseball experts predicted would end both Catcher Cochrane's playing career and the chances of the Tigers to win the American League pennant this season, revived an uproar about "bean balls" which has been a feature of the 1937 major-league baseball season...