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...make Albania an Italian protectorate was in 1927 the ambition of Benito Mussolini. Zog in those days was President of Albania. He was presently hog-tied with a crown. Albania under King Zog settled down to pleasant wildcat treasury squandering, made possible by yearly Italian loans which, conveniently, bore no interest...
...little Luis M. Sanchez Cerro was an old Spanish custom, to hit him was a fairly common occurrence, but to kill him was News. Martial law was declared throughout Peru last week and the nation went into mourning for three days. Five-foot flat and mostly Indian, a pocket wildcat of a man, President Sanchez Cerro was wounded in five places and lost three fingers of his left hand when he seized the spitting muzzle of a machine gun in his bare hands and turned it on the Government forces in overthrowing President Billinghurst in 1914. In 1921 they shot...
...present prices. . . . The Indiana company is sincerely desirous of seeing producers receive a satisfactory price for crude. But it is convinced that an advance in the face of present conditions would simply provide leeway for further abuses and delay progress toward permanent recovery" When oil was booming, when wildcat wells were going down by the thousand, when the first great pipelines were still pencil marks on engineers' maps, when promoters were swearing that they would checkerboard the States of Texas and Oklahoma with their leases, when low-laden tankers from Trinidad, Tampico and Maracaibo could not bring the crude...
...other hand the Crimson coaches have no misconceptions as to the danger of the Wildcat passing attack, and the Harvard players have been thoroughly drilled in aerial defense during the past week. The University team is unfortunately weak here because of its three new A team backs, all of whom have had little actual experience in Varsity games against a strong passing threat...
...whole there is little danger of a victory for the visitors today, for the Harvard line is far superior to that of the Wildcats. The chief difficulty of Coach Bill Cowell lies in the inexperience of his men, and not in their weight, for he possesses plenty of poundage. With his tackles and ends averaging 190 pounds apiece, his line weakens in the guard and center positions to men all under 180 pounds. The Wildcat backfield, light and speedy, barely averages over 165 pounds...