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...there was municipal rejoicing. Mayor Bradway further endeared herself to sporting Wildwoodmen at a wrestling match in the Municipal Auditorium. The audience became displeased with Wrestler Joe Savoldi for the tactics he was using to subdue his opponent, one Stanley Sokolis, and heartily approved when Mayor Bradway grabbed a plank, climbed into the ring and brought it down on Wrestler Savoldi's skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Extraordinary Mayor | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...recommending the compulsory athletic fee the Council laid plank number two in the bridge that will lead Harvard over the deep and horrid chasm in whose gloomy depths so many other colleges lie groaning. President Conant's demand for an endowment fund started the bridge from one side and the Council has laid the foundations from the other--only by a strong intra-mural program, self-sufficing and self-supporting, can athletics be rigorously bent to meet the needs of every student and the chasm successfully avoided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRASS TACKS | 3/26/1937 | See Source »

...Plank two will give the chairmen direct advisory power in the selection of appointive members to the Council. By the Constitution eight Councilmen are non-elective, nine elective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council to Initiate Platform for Integrating Student Government | 3/12/1937 | See Source »

Finally, the President of the Freshman Class will assume relations with the Council in the manner outlined for chairmen in plank one, and through the mediacy of the Council member in charge of Yardlings. For the submitting of business the Dean's office will be notified of all Council meetings in advance, as will the College through the CRIMSON notice column...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council to Initiate Platform for Integrating Student Government | 3/12/1937 | See Source »

...constitution. Batista's concern was to harangue Cuba's peasants, farmers, canefield workers, sugar growers and the like, about his own pet form of "dictatorship" which is neither Fascism nor Stalinism, but Batistism. Like all devotees of isms, "The Savior of Cuba" has at least one cranky plank in his platform. This is a scheme to put a 9?-tax on every bag of sugar produced in Cuba and use the proceeds, estimated at $2,000,000 a year, to educate peasant children in rural schools run by Army officers. At least 100,000 peasants, to judge from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Batistism | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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