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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-haired "Nick" Bogomoletz, now 67, eking out a living as a cobbler on Los Angeles' Hollywood Boulevard, this chronicle last year seemed very remote. But someone called the attention of the Bureau of Immigration to the fact that Nicholas Bogomoletz did not divorce his Russian wife until 1929, year that he and Anna were given their U. S. citizenship. The bureau started proceedings (aided by affidavits of long-memoried U. S. Army officers who were still bitter over the incident at Posolskaya). Result: Bogomoletz' and Anna's citizenship was revoked, and he was arrested for deportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Mme Perkins' Problems | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...final promotion went to Bill Coleman, a center last year who has been shifted to guard, who appears to have a good chance to push Dave Clueck, the only guard with experience, out of the top position flanking Russell's right. At left guard Nick Mellon, a light but capable Senior, won his "red-shirt" at the opening of the practice sessions...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Varsity Football Team Starts Third Week of Practice on Soldiers Field | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...time's nick, as the last ray of daylight began to fade, Golfer Ferebee limped up to the final green, sank his putt for a 5 and a last-round 89. He had taken 687 strokes (90, 82, 82, 82, 87, 87, 88, 89) for the 144 holes, had covered each of Olympia's four courses twice (a tee-to-green distance of 29 miles) in 13 hr. 32 min. "Well, anyway, my golf's got volume, if not quality," panted Ferebee, as he peeled off $100 to pay the ten caddies he had used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stroke a Minute | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...than the nor mal national need which was Mussolini's goal. The coldest, wettest winter since the turn of the Century, followed by a prolonged spring drought led to anticipation that this year's crop would fall to 220,000,000 bushels. Recent rains came in the nick of time and it is now predicted that the harvest will produce slightly over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Harvest and Headaches | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...outstanding performance of the afternoon in the eyes of the Crimson fans was Bert Litman's in the javelin who surpassed all his former achievements with 199 ft. 8 5-8 in. for fourth place. The event was won with a 217 ft. throw of Nick Vukmanic of Penn State...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FOUR TALLIES 12 POINTS IN I.C.A.A.A.A. | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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