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Tonight will find two University outfits in action, one attempting to check an invasion in Hemenway while the other seeks the M. I. T. scalp at Technology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO MINOR SPORT TEAMS TO SEE ACTION TONIGHT | 1/19/1927 | See Source »

...sensational K. K. K. investigations in Indiana, a fact which my opponents say will damage my chances for re-election to the Senate. Then I was injured in an automobile accident near Indianapolis. My car went into a ditch to save crashing into another machine. I received a scalp wound which it took ten stitches to close, a sprained wrist and ankle, many bruises. I will be in the hospital for a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 18, 1926 | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

...Franco-Spanish frontier, eagerly questioned travelers from Spain declared: "Weyler is after Primo's scalp again." They meant, of course, General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. He had, it was reported, lent the weight of his notorious influence to a band of his henchmen, who counted on marching from Barcelona to Madrid and Power-even as Dictator Primo made exactly that same "march à la Mussolini" (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). The active leaders of the revolt were 18 generals and a round dozen of Liberal and Communist politicians. General Aguilera, onetime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Old Man's Revolution | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

Resolute, he was as good as his word, completed all but the last few weeks of the season without conducting a note of "musical propaganda." Then rumors reached him that Fascist myrmidons were preparing to garner his scalp. Prudent, he withdrew from the theatre, alleging "poor health." Despatches reported last week that he had never seemed more robust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Arturo v. Benito | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

...some months the Dowager Tsarina Dagmar, widow of Tsar Alexander III, and her nephew King Christian X of Denmark have employed agents to investigate the possibility that a woman with bullet scars upon her scalp and abdomen, who is being cared for in a Berlin sanitarium under the name "Frau von Tschaikovski" (TIME, Jan. 11), may actually be the Grand Duchess Anastasia, reputedly murdered with her father Tsar Nicholas II and the rest of the imperial family in a cellar at Ekaterinburg. (July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tsarol Babe | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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