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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confident, and the elders bewildered. If his prefatory memories seem to promise what a college magazine can not now well fulfill, they are none the less moving for that. Mr. Hay, in an editorial which celebrates the magazine's revival, is more restrained. Unfortunately he and his contemporaries live in the Thirties. They have before them the example of a preceding 'generation, self-conscious and "young," which preempted the qualities of youth, its postures and certainties, and still clutches them at the grave's edge...
...Stockton. The Know Nothings put him in the State Supreme Court in 1855, but that did not keep him from resting in jail next year while the San Francisco Vigilantes waited to see whether one of their men whom he had stabbed with a bowie knife was going to live...
...sentenced to death. Piatakov was not only one of the very biggest Reds but a warm and human character by comparison with the cold, brusque Ordzhonikidze. Russia has long been a land of personal vengeance and Piatakov was the kind of man whose Russian friends would risk their lives to avenge him. After the death sentence was passed on Piatakov, the "sudden death" of Ordzhonikidze was something Moscow correspondents not so much expected as awaited. They were handed one day last week a bulletin in which the Soviet official agency Tass stated that...
...justice as the Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trials must have seemed to Manchukuoan Emperor Kang Te, Japan's bland puppet. To Red Russians there is nowhere a more detestable body of men than the "White Guards" in Manchukuo, a group of ex-Tsarist soldiers, aristocrats and riff-raff who live just outside the Soviet Union border, expecting momentarily and scheming year after year for "the collapse of Bolshevism...
...Navy wrestlers were beating Penn, 23-to-3, Wrestler Allman lost his match to Navy's Charles Chandler but his display of defensive technique was so impressive that 4,000 spectators cheered him throughout the bout, gave him an ovation when it ended. Said Blind Wrestler Allman: "I live for wrestling. If I lost out on the squad I would feel lost. You know I love the cheering from fans when I am down on the mat, but of course it confuses me before leaving my feet. You see, I must follow my opponent by the sound...