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...Kirkland-Leverett affair combined flashes of good running and line play with many of the aspects of mass mayhem. The Rabbits, entering the game without the services of two regulars, were further disabled when Rich Rabenold, halfback, sprained his ankle in the first quarter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland in House Football Lead; Elephants Upset | 10/14/1938 | See Source »

...Expenditures Committee (TIME, Aug. 8)-the knockdown, drag-out fight in Tennessee between the team of Senator George L. Berry & Governor Gordon Browning and the team of Senator Kenneth D. McKellar & Boss Ed Crump of Memphis. Coercion of WPAsters, ballot-box stuffing, martial law, shootings, sluggings, kidnappings and general mayhem were anticipated when Chairman Sheppard of the Committee rushed extra agents into Tennessee and announced that whoever won this Senate race would probably have his seat challenged on the floor of the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Surprise Ending | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...wife and two young sons at home. The "thesis" lay beside his body when it was discovered last week. Excerpt: "Surely there can be no good reason for going on and maiming honest people just to eke out a living. To me general practice was just a life of mayhem and murder. ... I am not at all afraid of Death. Death is an old friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Old Friend | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Mayhem is more serious in France than tax evasion. By evening the Corneuil house was surrounded by khaki-coated gendarmes with rifles, searchlights, tear bombs. All through the night they besieged it. Every time a policeman's blue cap appeared, the Widow Corneuil or one of her sons took a shot at it. Next morning one brave gendarme volunteered to make a last effort to persuade the Widow Corneuil to surrender. Again a shot. He twisted on his heel and dropped dead. The siege continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Deaths (4) & Taxes ($6.40) | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...into a sterilization operation; to Ronald Gay, 30, mechanic at a Shell Oil plant in Oakland, Calif.; in Grants Pass, Ore. Mother Maryon Hewitt McCarter claimed she had the operation performed because her daughter was feeble-minded and "dangerously over-sexed." The physicians who performed it were acquitted of mayhem, but Heiress Gay's $500,000 suit against her mother is still pending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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