Word: takings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fascist Heimwehr, and the Socialist Schutzbund), the entire cabinet of Chancellor Ernst Streeruwitz, an ineffectual businessman, declared itself incapable of dealing with the situation, resigned in a body. Leaders of all political parties rushed to Vienna's police station, begged sleek white-bearded Police Chief Johann Schober to take over the reins of government...
...drew a crowd," he said over the telephone, "by having two or three fellows run out into the middle of the street when traffic was stopped and take pictures of me. The most amusing incident of the whole afternoon occurred when a minister took one of the handbills and read till he came to the word Socialist which is near the top of the page. Then, handing it back to me, he said: 'Socialism! Young man, you should be in jail...
...long it will take to master these two obstacles to giving back to the players the real supervision of the games I cannot predict, but I have no question at all that the change will occur. There has for a long time been at Yale a large body of opinion strongly favorable to this procedure and Mr. T. A. D. Jones, who was for many years the coach of the Yale football teams, is now writing a series of articles for one of the metropolitan papers in which he is discussing sympathetically this program...
...world wide anti German feeling which had been fanned to a white heat by completely false government statements issued under the stress of war and build up in its place a real respect for the honesty and integrity of his nation. Refusing to accept his doctors orders and take a rest, he worked on for the good of Germany under the strain of internal difficulties knowing that his days were numbered. No greater services could any man perform for his country and for the rest of the world...
Professor Dozer's lecture this morning at 9 o'clock in S emetic Museum 1 seems of unusual interest to the Vagabond. In connection with Anthropology 1, Professor Dozer's will take up the general subject of "Evolution", and this would seem an excellent occasion for the Vagabond to fill in the gaps which the reading of popular "outlines" has left with...