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...year-old from Riverdale, Illinois, Betty Robinson, won the race--the very first track event for women--with a time of 12.2 sec. What made Robinson's victory so remarkable was that the Olympics was only her fourth track meet. The 1932 winner was Stanislawa Walasiewicz of Poland, who was better known in the U.S., her second country, as Stella Walsh. According to an official, Walsh ran "with long, manlike strides." The reason for that became clear some 48 years later when Walsh, an innocent bystander, was killed in a robbery attempt in Cleveland. An autopsy revealed she was actually...
...graduate student, who requested anonymity, called the native of Poland a "tyrant...
...graduate student, who requested anonymity, called the native of Poland a "tyrant...
Although Conant had been rather ambivalent about the German army's march across Europe prior to the Nazi invasion of Poland, after the start of the war on September 1, Conant "emerged on the national scene as a leading interventionist and in the Roosevelt administration as an apostle of military preparedness," according to a biography of Conant written by James B. Hershberg...
...early stages of Nazi aggression and even after the German invasion of Poland, the student body reacted angrily to Conant's position...