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...bombard Senator Long and the politics of Louisiana let them go to it. They could search further and fare worse in any search for targets worthy of their fire. But a certain restraint in the written word is always advisable, particularly for amateurs seeking to lift the political scalp of such a wily old professional as Huey Long. New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: These Harvard Boys! | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...everyone in the Boston Garden could hear the thud. While Bailey's teammates carried him to the dressing room, twitching and writhing with a fractured skull, Horner whizzed up to Shore, whammed him on the chin, knocked him unconscious. It took seven stitches to put Shore's scalp together. Few minutes later a bespectacled spectator in an excited crowd around the dressing-room door was punched in the eye. Connie Smythe, Maple Leaf manager, was arrested for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bloodthirsty Boston | 12/25/1933 | See Source »

...some veteran wag possessed himself of a knife and cut loose. Even Chicago the unshockable found this rather heavy footed, and were it not that the Legion constituted a sacrosanct mine of large emotions and useful votes, the reformers would certainly have reached for their hatchets and carved its scalp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/26/1933 | See Source »

...rumbled: "Infla-tion is indispensable to the success of the NRA." A growing demand was developing for the Treasury to pay off depositors in closed banks with $3,000,000,000 in "greenbacks." The Iowa Farmers' Union was ranting for inflation and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's scalp because he refused to believe that inflation was a cureall. Even conservative members of the Administration were recommending a quick burst of paper money as the only practical way of silencing the inflationary clamor. "'I am unexcited and intend to remain so," President Roosevelt, up from a sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Inflation Finessed | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

Near Troy, Ohio when a train crashed into her horse & buggy, killing the horse, Mrs. Anna Idemiller, 71, seized an iron ring on the front of the locomotive, held on until the train stopped, escaped with scalp injuries and a broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 18, 1933 | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

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