Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Underdogs Up. The other three ministries vacated by Il Duce were all entrusted to men who held the corresponding under-secretaryships up to last week. General Pietro Gozzera, who served with Italy's Chief of Staff during the World War, becomes Minister of War. Rear Admiral Giuseppe Siriani...
"A nice person to be Commisar of Education!"-that was what Bolshevist intellectuals thought but dared not say last week when they heard that Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin had placed in charge of Russia's schools and universities bold, dashing, ruthless General Andrei Bubnov (pronounced Boobnoff). Dictator Stalin himself...
A few months ago the original Corpse Blackamon, finding the long evenings in his coffin cramping and monotonous, gave up his original act, purchased a hussar jacket and a whip and toured South America, sticking his head into lions' mouths twice daily. But Argentine circusgoers missed their Living Corpse...
Thus far proceedings had been sufficiently decorous, but now Sir Malcolm Robertson, British Ambassador to Argentina and not a member of the d'Abernon Trade Mission, hove up upon his feet and cried: "Let the price of Argentine meat and wheat rise! Thanks to the work which you are going...
In Eddyville, Ky., Carl Hord, 27, murderer of a grocer, sat in an electric chair. When the switch was thrown, 2,000 volts went through his body. Murderer Hord slumped, then straightened up. "Boys," he remarked, "I'm not dead."