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It was, however, one of the best practices in point of view of drive and spark that has been seen all season. The A and B teams were driving through the C team in a protracted scrimmage with a ruthless abandon that left the subs gasping for air and pawing...

Author: By John J. Reidy jr., | Title: HARLOW'S TEAM SHINES IN DEFENSE TACTICS AS STREET LIGHTS GLEAM | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

J. Stalin gets results, and soon Moscow presses were saying that Yagoda never was his creature, that the Dictator never really liked him, long wanted to be rid of him. More and more lurid stories followed, with Comrade Yagoda swelling in horrid infamy until it appeared that Ogpu evenings under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Double-Grosser & Cattle | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Sometimes, as was indicated in the arrest of the bakery owner last fortnight, businessmen who want to keep competition down and prices up in spite of anti-trust laws organize it themselves, take racketeers as partners. Last week, well aware of the significance of his mission, Dewey Assistant Herlands set...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fight Against Fear | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

During the reign of her first son, sickly Frangois II, she waited and watched; at his death she declared herself Regent for her second surviving son, 10-year-old Charles IX. Now she found that her family affairs were the parlous state of the nation. Bled nearly white by protracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mother in Politics | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

There is perhaps no deed of Cyrano de Bergerac, that redoubtable French anticipation and compound of Babe Ruth, George Washington and Dr. Sarkas, which has so endeared him to the public as his rustication of Montfleury, the contemporary ham. And who has not cursed whatever gods may be, during the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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