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Doughtiest of Soviet commanders in the actual front-line sector, likeliest to start the game of putting White Russians to the sword, is Red Russia's greatest cavalry commander, Comrade Semion Micheilovitch Budenny, fierce, resourceful, reckless. His wife, from his own wild Kuban steppes, galloped and fought at his side when the young Soviet Republic was death-grappling with Wrangel and Denikin...
...when Pius died, Merry del Val seemed by all odds the likeliest candidate for St. Peter's throne. But a new force had arisen in the Catholic hierarchy, Giacomo della Chiesa, Archbishop of Bologna. Cardinal della Chiesa had delivered a striking address on the outbreak of the War, in which he insisted that the Holy See observe the strictest neutrality, yet make every effort to restore peace and mitigate suffering. The fine periods of that address were still echoing when the Cardinals met to elect a new Pope. Ten ballots were cast and as the smoke of their burning...
...accepted as Robert Strawbridge Jr. who got into the 1924 series as a substitute; who was a substitute last autumn. Another of the 1927 substitutes was Winston Guest. 21, recent Yale graduate, U. S. citizen, son of a British polo player and a Long Island Phipps. He is the likeliest new internationalist. The fourth member of the team cannot now be forecast by even shrewdest prophets...
Kansas City Chosen. After the Coolidge and Hughes statements, the Republican National Committee's choice of a convention city narrowed swiftly. City-boosters filled the Willard Hotel in Washington with their placards and overtures. San Francisco, Kansas City and Detroit were likeliest to please when the field of candidates for the nomination seemed reduced to Messrs. Hoover, Lowden & Dawes and Senator Curtis of Kansas...
...Francisco, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago seemed the likeliest candidates-San Francisco because she offered so much money** and was in the attention-loving West; Cleveland and Philadelphia because they are nearer Washington and it may be that Congress will not have adjourned-thanks to Democratic strategy-before the G. O. P. convention meets. Cleveland and Philadelphia moreover were both unembarrassed by "native sons." It is considered bad political form to nominate a man in his own state. The possibility of Herbert C. Hoover's being chosen counted against San Francisco for this reason. In Pennsylvania, the only native...