Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Stalin dictates at Moscow, having overthrown Leon Trotzky and many another. Recently M. Trotzky and other anti-Stalinites, notably MM. Zinoviev and Kamenev, have been rumored to be gathering strength for a war of propaganda against the man of steel.* Last week M. Stalin, no office holder but the despotic "boss" of the Communist party, rapped out three orders. Leon Trotzky and his malcontents were commanded to cease their opposition to the dictator's will. For an hour they temporized, then found courage for battle ebbing. Next day the supremacy of Joseph Stalin stood once more unquestioned...
Secretary for Air Sir Samuel Hoare beamed over crystal and fine napery in London last week. Rising, he cast an eye about the Air Council assembled at luncheon to honor Alan Cobham, holder of the 28,000-mile world's record for long distance point-to-point-and-return flights-England to Australia and return. Clearing his throat, Sir Samuel Hoare announced that it had pleased His Brittanic Majesty to appoint Airman Cobham a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire...
...Barbee '28, member of the University squad a year ago and holder of two letters for basketball and baseball, will make his first appearance of the season in the backfield of the Junior team. Barbee failed to return to Cambridge early for football having just reported about a week ago. He is one of the most promising players on the class squads, and will probably see service on the University or Second squads before the season is over...
...Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry was established by the late C. C. Stillman '98, of New York City. Professor Murray selected to be the first holder of the chair, is one of the most noted scholars in the world on classical subjects. And in the field of poetry...
...upsets occurred in the third round of the University tennis tournament yesterday afternoon. Captain J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, of the University team, present title holder, and favorite to win this year's contest, won his match by a decisive score...