Word: papere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stalin-Trotzky feud was seemingly quenched (TIME, Oct. 25) when Comrade Trotzky was forced to sign a pledge that he would not oppose or criticize the Stalin majority group. Last week this pledge seemed less than "a scrap of paper" as M. Trotzky stood up before the Comintern* and thundered opposition to Josef Stalin with all the moving fire of his famed spellbinding prowess. He urged that warlike "reprisals" be taken against Britain, demanded that pressure be brought on the Chinese Nationalists to proclaim a Chinese Soviet Republic, and generally flayed Dictator Stalin for not pushing with sufficient energy...
Primo de Rivera, bullnecked, florid, paunchy, inflexible, replied by sending a circular note of reprimand to Opposition news paper editors: "The Government shall defend its firm and irrevocable resolve, already taken, and it shall not permit any opposition designed to distract, alienate or misinform public opinion, which in the majority has accepted this solution as the best offered in the exercise of the dictatorship under the Government's exclusive responsibility to country and King...
...host, Lord Lonsdale, sat in another. A man with a megaphone at a crossroad was announcing the second coming of the Lord and flaying gambling. Approximately every fifth person in Great Britain was gambling. A dentist's assistant in Capetown, South Africa, had a valuable slip of paper in his pocket. Some 300,000 people were watching 23 horses. It was Derby Day at Epsom Downs, where hills scallop the landscape and a dimple among them makes a natural bowl for a race course...
...contest was held this year on the same basis as that of last year, when the cup was awarded to the Choate News. The judges of the present contest, F. V. Field '27, J. F. Barnes '27, and H. W. Foote Jr. '27, are rating the papers that have been submitted on the basis of their news and editorial columns, the appearance of their make-up, the style of form and head lines, the quality of pictures and illustrations, and the character of the writing. The cup for this year's award is being given by the present Senior Board...
...value of Washington as a training school for young Journalists was written for the Crimson by H. C. Lodge Jr. '24. Lodge started newspaper work in the Capitol as the State House correspondent for The Boston Transcript, but last year changed to the New York Herald-Tribune, on which paper he now holds the position of correspondent for proceedings in the House of Representatives...