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...people expected, 2,400 were in the audience. Worse still, Candidate Borah was in need of the night's rest he had lost on the train. Final damper was the Machine Age. Like many another politician, Senator Borah has accepted the adage that modern campaign is a duel by radio. In one of his first major radio trials, in Brooklyn last January, his friends found the great orator from Idaho far from impressive. The trouble was, he thought, that he had to pause too often to consult his manuscript. To Youngstown he went with no manuscript. For 80 minutes...
Greatest of Federalist scandals was the killing, in a duel, of Alexander Hamilton by his bitter political opponent, Aaron Burr. The New York Chronicle of July 13, 1804 described the fatal affair with impressive simplicity: "They then proceeded to load the pistols. . . . The gentleman who was to give the word then explained to the parties the rules. . . . Both parties took aim and fired. . . . The fire of Col. Burr took effect...
...dismay of the French Press and public, to the vast relief of the Ministry of Justice, the nine-month duel of wits between Besson and "Bouboule" ended last week. Onetime Deputy Hippolyte Marcellin Philibert Besson, who took to doing card tricks in a Montmartre café, was arrested by plump Police Inspector...
...second period Mechem got an early goal, and then fireworks were let loose as Ford and Carvell engaged each other in a little slashing duel with Carvell being chased...
...yards of the H-Y-P cross country meet. Captain Bob Playfair ghosted by Woodland of Yale to finish the course at Nassau in record-smashing, time, while his team-mates rolled out a 25-30 victory over Eli yesterday and a similar total for the separately scored Princeton duel...