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...packed off to the Hamina Cadet School at the age of 14 and immediately established himself as a leader. He went on to the Nikolaev Cavalry School in Russia proper and came out a second lieutenant in 1889, aged 22. Two years later he wangled a transfer to the Tsar's Chevalier Guard. After his marriage to Anastasia, daughter of Major General Nikolai Arapov of the Tsar's suite, Lieutenant Mannerheim's advance was rapid. He became a first lieutenant in 1893, a second captain in 1899, a captain of cavalry in 1901. In 1904 he went...
Forty-seven years ago last week at Revel, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia), a boy was born who was destined to make his mark in European politics. As a youth he soap-boxed for anti-Semitism and studied architecture. As a nominal subject of the Tsar he fought (so his enemies later said) with the Russian Imperial Armies. As a descendant of an old German Baltic family, he became a Pan-German and returned, after World War I, to his "spiritual homeland...
...brass bands); 2) athletic scholarships; 3) phantom or sinecure campus jobs; 4) alumni or student organization handouts; 5) scalping of football tickets by squadsmen; 6) other "bad practices." To administer these bans, the Conference engaged wordy Mr. Atherton for three more years as its "commissioner," a post promptly dubbed "Tsar of West Coast Football...
...underground" Communist convention of 1922 (Gitlow, chairman), convened in deep woods near the village of Bridgman, Mich., with night sessions by torchlight to ape Old Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...
...local managers of George White's Scandals and of the Kaufman-Hart comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner to drop references to John Lewis, announced that any mention of C. I. O. and its boss will be forbidden hereafter on Chicago stages. When Chicago newspapers fumed about Tsar Petrillo in a censor's role, Jimmy announced for local consumption that he was just joking. Impresario White took him at his word, at week's end put John L. Lewis back in the Scandals, waited to see what would happen. Said Manager Sam Gerson, as host...