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...Alekhine's daring an open slight on the Dutchman's talents. Disconcerted by their caustic mumblings. Dr. Alekhine won a three-day respite from the Dutch doctor. When he returned to play, neither his rest nor his mascot cat, which sniffed the board before each game, could stave off Dr. Euwe's determined efforts. In the 25th game, Alekhine sacrificed two pawns in the opening, hoped to snare his opponent's queen. Watchful Dr. Euwe withdrew the piece from danger, forced Alekhine to resign, went into the lead for the first time. Two days later...
...that account he was not eligible to become Pope (papabile), was Giuseppe Sarto. Few days later he was chosen Pope, taking the name Pius X. Theologically Pius X's greatest work was his encyclical Pascendi which demolished the then dangerous Catholic movement toward Modernism. Vainly attempting to stave off the War, he died soon after its beginning, has been called its first victim. Last June brought the centenary of the birth of Giuseppe Sarto. Last week many a Catholic was praying that Pope Pius X be made a saint, the Boston Pilot recalling that since his death people have...
...nearly an hour the terrified little parachute-jumper tried to stave off the advances of the baseballer. Finally he was pinned to the floor, blood-smeared and near exhaustion. Then Pilot Mulqueeny realized: "It was either the three of us or just one. I left the controls and tried to pull Koenecke down. . . . Finally I grabbed the fire extinguisher. I walloped him over the head with it." A dozen times, Mulqueeny bashed the wild man, splashing blood and extinguishing fluid all over the cabin walls. At last Koenecke slumped into a heap. Just in time. Pilot Mulqueeny jumped back...
...plan acceptable to two-thirds of each class of a company's creditors and a majority of each class of its stockholders. Ink was hardly dry on the new law before corporation lawyers crowded into Federal Courts all over the land to start reviving old bankrupt companies or to stave off the crash of concerns close to trouble. In Manhattan the first to apply for reorganization under Section 77b was Radio-Keith-Orpheum. Last week RKO was still in the courts but Paramount, whose reorganization could never have been completed without Section 77b. was out of the woods. First major...
...Supreme Court chopped off the Blue Eagle's head, the copper industry came to a standstill. Nobody wanted to be the first to slash prices, especially since inventory-taking was less than two months off. Aged Philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn, president of Miami Copper Co., did his best to stave off a price panic fortnight ago by crying stoutly: "I have been associated with the copper industry for more than 50 years and only once prior to the Depression have I seen such a low price as 9?. . . . The copper industry is headed for higher prices, and legitimately...