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Cultural Lag. In Spokane, Leo Sol-Louse, an Indian, explained to police the wound on his forehead: a couple of Canadian braves had tried to scalp...
Clearly, the economic marriage was not between equals: the U.S. was not as dependent on Canada for any single product as Canada was on the U.S. for oil and steel. But there were a few items of trade which might make the Wherrymen call off their scalp-hunting. Or so Canadians hoped...
Friday the thirteenth was a godsend rather than an ill omen for William L. Prosser '18, professor of Law, and William K. Poindexter 2L. Professor Prosser got a real bona fide lawsuit, and Poindexter is still gloating over the chance to "scalp" a law professor...
Bull Moosers. The best try was made by the Progressives of 1912. Ex-President Teddy Roosevelt thought better of his resolution not to seek a third term, unlimbered his big stick and set out after the scalp of his hand-picked successor, William Howard Taft. Declaring that he "felt like a bull moose," Roosevelt shrilly attacked "moneyed privilege" and "special interests," polled 4,126,020 popular and 88 electoral votes to Taft's 3,483,922 popular and eight electoral. But Democrat Woodrow Wilson, with a popular vote of 6,286,214-less than Taft and Roosevelt combined-walked...
...wonder team that year, starring "Jarrin' Jawn" Kimbrough, which was voted the nation's best. In five years, his Aggies had played in four Bowl games. Box office was good at the campus stadium. Last year, when old grads began yelling for his scalp, Homer, who has coached at Texas A. & M. for 14 years, calmly told them to put up or shut up; his $10,000-a-year contract still had three years to run. They shut...