Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impromptu debate in Spanish later on with the excuse that they had not known that Porto Rico University was desirous of debating bilingually. As it was, the honor of taking part in the first intercollegiate debate to be held in a foreign tongue fell to New York University. The latter team was defeated but it proved concisely that N. Y. U. had students who were not afraid to face a foreign audience and debate and refute in a foreign tongue. Other colleges were fearful of making themselves appear ridiculous so they declined Porto Rico's invitation to stage bilingual...
...York's Republican Secretary of State in 1925-27. In taking the State census she padded the payroll and forged check endorsements to the amount of some $24,175.82 (TIME, June 4). Democratic Governor Smith put Republican Attorney-General Albert Ottinger in charge of the case and the latter begged a suspended sentence because of Mrs. Knapp's "physical and mental suffering, her exposure, disgrace and complete ruin." But 30 days of gaol she had to serve. She was Syracuse University's Dean of Home Economics after leaving, office and until exposed. She went to prison...
...visiting Manxmen were impressed by the size of the U. S., though not by its climate nor its political excitements. The latter, Manxman George J. A. Brown declared to be "weird," while his companions, annoyed by the heat and dust and goings-on of the convention city, recalled with homesick joy that in Man, where each case requires individual legislation, there have been not more than half a dozen divorces; that there are no snakes or foxes in Man, and that even the insects are not malicious; that the Manx temperature rarely if ever exceeds 75 degrees...
...passionate case against Gentile Dictator Stalin; 2) Incredible Siberia* wherein a Chicago Daily News correspondent hears U.S. drummers' jokes told in ultima thule smoking cars; and 3) The Mind and Face of Bolshevism† still the latest and most potent Teutonic indictment of Soviet culture. Flayed in the latter book is the famed epic poem of Bolshevism, 150 Million, .by Comrade Poet Maiakovski...
...week at Bad Kissingen, Germany, E. D. Bogoljubow, onetime Russian chess champion, paced the floor while he awaited his opponent's move. When Dr. Max Euwe of Holland made his move and pushed the handle on the timepiece that began eating up the seconds allotted to Bogoljubow, the latter made no lunge for the seat which he had vacated. In his mind the board was quite as clear as though he had it placed before him. He was not worried. All he needed was a draw to win first place in the International Grand Masters Tournament, to repeat...