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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last May the team closed its most active season in years by journeying to Cedarhurst, Long Island, in an attempt to avenge a one bird defeat inflicted by Yale in the Autumn, an attempt which proved fruitless due to the failure of Yale to gather a full team...
Small of stature but agile and smart is William M. ("Billy") Hughes, kinetic oldster, Wartime Prime Minister of Australia. Fortnight ago he worked a shrewd wangle in the Dominion Parliament, caused the defeat by one vote of the Cabinet of his bitter personal rival for leadership of the Nationalist Party, youthful Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce (TIME, Sept. 23). This made necessary a General Election called for Oct. 12. Delighted with his disruptive handiwork, Billy Hughes celebrated one night last week by attending at Sydney, Australia, what he said was his first wrestling match...
...bench was the position in which Mr. Hughes found himself, last week, as he started campaigning for re-election to the Dominion Parliament. He claims to be a Nationalist (he formed the Nationalist party in 1917) and would like to run as such, but because he engineered the defeat of his personal enemy Nationalist Prime Minister Bruce last fortnight, the Nationalist Party formally refused to endorse his candidacy last week. On the other hand, although he claims he is not a member of the Laborite Opposition, the Labor Party announced last week that they would run no candidate in North...
...takes a more consistent and bruising beating than that of guard it has yet to be discovered, and this is especially true when the opposition is expected to count on its line attack for those vital two and three-yard gains the success of which often spells victory or defeat. Harvard's opponents are mostly of the big-college-powerfully-built type who plan to have their open attacks carefully checked by driving line offensives in critical moments. To have a pair of weak guards who will wilt under heavy battering is to be under a handicap so grievous that...
...leadership of the Nationalist Party from Mr. Hughes. Since then the personal feud between them has been relentless. Last week Statesman Hughes had his revenge for what happened in 1923. By persuading Yachtsman Marks to vote unexpectedly against a vital labor measure sponsored by Mr. Bruce, he caused the defeat of the Government. The Prime Minister was obliged to ask dissolution of the Dominion Parliament, thus necessitating a general election. Swan Song. Flushed and angry was the mien of Prime Minister Bruce as he stood up before Parliament in the new Australian Capital of Canberra to announce that the election...