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...clean record, is a sworn foe of corporate interests. Most of his votes would go to Merriam if he withdrew. But Progressive Haight, who is only 38, seemed quite willing to have Acting Governor Merriam defeated and put aside, on the theory that by 1938 the electorate's disgust with Sinclair will give Haight a real chance of election...
...Mannerheim has a good claim to the title of Finland's "Grand Old Man." Now 67, he fought through the Tsars' wars to the rank of Major General of Cavalry in 1917. After the last Tsar abdicated and Kerensky took over, Mannerheim went home to Finland in disgust, just in time to pull together a White Army and beat off the Bolsheviks. In May 1918, he rode into Helsingfors at the head of his victorious troops. Inevitably he was made Regent of the new Government, for then Finland had an idea it would turn to a monarchy. When...
Promptly the dam broke. Spanish radicals might be in the minority, but they were ready, and they were armed. In every part of Spain, with rifles, revolvers, machine-guns, and occasionally light cannon, the revolutionists fought their way. But, to their unbounded disgust, army, navy and civil guards stayed loyal. At least 400 were killed, 1.500 wounded in the bloodiest week-end the Republic has seen. What caused this revolt to fail, like all the others that have shaken the country since the fall of Alfonso XIII, was a complete lack of organization...
...became "everybody's woman" after her marriage at 14 to an old imbecile. Contributing to her delinquency was the nomadic life which first her parents, then her husband led her through the shacks of small Massachusetts communities. Two of her children, and probably the third, are illegitimate. With disgust Professor Glueck and his wife report: "The alleged father of Minnie's third child had made a bet with some of the neighborhood bums that he could have intercourse with Minnie under a street light. He won his bet, the act taking place behind a bowling alley while...
Ordered to pay a fine of 100 francs ($6.60), Motorist Moe gestured his disgust, called the French a race of welchers and flatly refused to pay $6.60 to any French court until President Roosevelt receives the total War Debt payment now due from Paris...