Word: scalps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 14 months of waiting for Provisional President Carlos Mendieta to turn into Santa Claus, every amateur Robespierre in Cuba went out last week for Mendieta's political scalp. It was not that they wanted quick elections to set up a stable government. Most of them knew an election would call their bluff. It was not that Mendieta was a tyrant. Most of the opposition "sectors" consider him too weak. The nearest thing to a sensible plan anyone had was to overthrow Mendieta, forcing his Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista to set up a military dictatorship and thus offer...
...contests on the short end of a small score. The Eli aggregation is generally picked to snatch the intercollegiate title away from the third place Indians but is certain that they will have to show great power to skate away from the Crimson with another scalp hanging at their belts...
...uncrowned tsar of Monte Carlo, sleek, hard Casino Director René Léon, far more potent than fusty old Prince Louis of Monaco, was under withering fire last week from Monégasques who loudly demanded his scalp. On top of the wallop Depression gave Monte Carlo had come a second staggering blow, the decision of the French Government in 1933 to legalize roulette, hitherto a Monte monopoly, in France. Groggy from these two crushers, Director Léon faced last week the minute principality's irate National Assembly. Shouted a deputy who was promptly seconded by Mayor...
...until February with a bad ankle, and to cap the climax long Bill Gray is taking a rest on doctor's orders. If Gray and Boys can be in uniform to greet the Cayugans, Harvard's stock will be high, and there seems to be no reason why another scalp cannot be added to the Harvard total of three. Three was all the games that were won last year, so anything from now on will be profit...
...jingle might go on indefinitely, with Senator David Reed whose scalp was the biggest snagged by Franklin Roosevelt in the election, with Schoolman William A. Wirt who found a Red conspiracy in the Brain Trust; with Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds who made peace between financiers and the White House; with Airman Charles Augustus Lindbergh who protested against airmail cancellations; with others & others...