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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover has just been assassinated ! Vice President Curtis is mortally wounded!" So cried a voice to the Paterson, N. J., radio audience. Frantic telephone calls for confirmation of this News were made to National Broadcasting Co.'s Station WJZ. Last week the company started a search for the amateur radio-news-faker who used the WJZ wave length and call letters to broadcast such gruesome "humor...
Peace is a comparative term in Mexico. Last week occurred a battle between Federal troops and Catholic rebels in the town of Mexticac%#225;n, Jalisco. Some 50 rebels were killed, 50 more wounded. Nevertheless, President Portes Gil continued to consider Peace fully restored to his country. Final figures were published about the revolution?4,000 dead, 11,000 wounded, over 50 million dollars damage. And the country's strong man, Plutarco Elias Calles, was allowed to hand back the Ministry of War to General Joaquin Amaro, whose temporary resignation at the beginning of the revolution was blamed...
...Stalin government, three former imperial and Kerensky officials, recently high Soviet railway and mining officials, were sentenced to be shot dead for obstructing Communist operation of railways and of the gold and platinum industry-in other words, for "counter-revolutionary plotting for the restoration of Capitalism." Condemned were: N. K. von Meck, onetime chairman of the privately owned Moscow-Kazan Railway; A. F. Velitchko, head of the transport department of the Imperial Staff during the World War, and Professor P. A. Palchinsky, professor at the Leningrad Mining Institute. Ended the official communiqué: "The death sentences have been carried...
Hammer throw. Qualifiers Black (Maine), 163 ft.; Worden (Cornell), 160 ft. 5 1-4 in.; P. N. Vonckx '31, 153 ft. 3-4 in.; Wies (Cornell), 151 ft. 1 3-4 in.; Gwinn (Pittsburgh), 148 ft. 3-4 in.; King (Dartmouth...