Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still hoped to negotiate a treaty, if not on the basis of parity at least better than 5-5-3. If so, few doubted that she was mistaken in her guile. The U. S. delegates were not blind to the fact that the U. S., capable of building about seven battleships to Japan's one on the basis of national wealth, will gain relatively little economically and lose relatively much in naval power by yielding further to Japan, whereas Japan may lose much both economically and in naval power by competitive building. Whatever Japan's reason for sending...
...futility of charity as a method of ending misery. Because she was a charter member of California's Communist Labor Party, she was convicted in 1920 under the State's notorious Criminal Syndicalism Act, sentenced to one to 14 years in San Quentin Prison. For seven years fiery young Lawyer John Francis Neylan, now William Randolph Hearst's most trusted adviser, fought for a retrial, finally took her case on appeal up to the U. S. Supreme Court. The appeal was rejected in a decision which established the constitutionality of the Criminal Syndicalism Act. In 1927, after...
...Madison A. ("Matty") Bell of Southern Methodist. From 1,300 undergraduates, he selected a team good enough to whitewash the University of California at Los Angeles (TIME, Nov. 18), to remain undefeated, untied in ten games. A Centre man himself, Matty Bell has now worked for three of the seven colleges in the Southwest Conference. In 1923-28 he coached at Texas Christian. Two bad seasons at Texas A. & M. had left him without a job until he was put on last year as Southern Methodist's assistant coach. When his predecessor went to Vanderbilt, he left Matty...
Following the Olympic tryouts on January 25, the fencing team has a schedule of seven matches culminating in the Intercollegiates in New York, on March...
...dark-haired, active son of a well-to-do Jewish lawyer from the Rhineland town of Trier. His 22-year-old sweetheart was Jenny von Westphalen, close friend of his older sister, daughter of a highly-placed official whose family had won its title for military service in the Seven Years War. Disliking the university, Marx signed up for lectures which he did not attend, fitfully studied a remarkable variety of subjects, tried to found a new philosophy of law, drafted a new metaphysical system, yearned to return to Trier to be married. Although he did not live extravagantly...