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During the campaign Lord Strickland's Constitutionalist Party charged that the Nationalist Party which proceeded to vanquish them is "linked with Italy, with the Church and with the Fascist declaration that Malta is a part of Italy unredeemed." Nationalists retorted that if Baron Strickland were really a "faithful son of Holy Church" as he claimed in his letter to be, then the British Premier ought to be working zealously for return of Malta to the temporal as well as spiritual fold of Rome...
...game with Grand Master Rudolf Spielman, the winner of which had a chance to tie Cuban Jose R. Capablanca for first place, he humored his opponent's overaggressiveness, craftily exchanging pieces to gain a winning advantage. To hold his lead in the final game, he had to vanquish Grand Master Tartakower of Vienna. Noting that his adversary looked weary, he deployed on a lengthy rochade attack. After six hours Tartakower's game collapsed and sly Nimzowitsch cinched the tournament...
...largest private army in the world (TIME, July 2). He recently resigned as Nationalist War Minister, but last week some of his well-drilled divisions advanced south against the rebels under the Nationalist banner, while the Marshal with his main army moved north into Shantung; seemingly with intent to vanquish the Marshal Chang Tsung-chang who had just captured Chefoo?where the hair nets come from...
Crimson debaters will mount the rostrum in Paine Hall tonight at 8.15 o'clock in an effort to vanquish the Carleton College representatives. The subject for discussion will be "Resolved. That the jury system should be abolished," with the University supporting the negative...
...passionate address of Duce to the Senate, last week, was almost solely designed to vanquish this fear. Cried he, at the apogee of his oration: "Six years of loyalty and devotion to the King and Crown by all men of the Fascist Party and the recent dedication by the King himself at Bologna of a votive lamp in memory of those Blackshirts who fell in the creation and defense of the Fascist regime, make it unnecessary to give further demonstration that the rights of the Crown will not be endangered or touched by the special prerogatives given to the Grand...