Word: points
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point riot cars full of Schutzstaffeln (Hitler Elite Guards) took over. Rolling up to the university, they unlimbered machine guns, began to haul off "ringleaders." In dormitories, where many who had not turned out for the demonstration were still in their night clothes, some of the students hastily piled up barricades of tables, beds and chairs. Others fled into the night amid a, spray of Nazi machine-gun bullets. When the skirmish ended, scores of the wounded were carried off to Prague hospitals...
...whose heads he once set a price, trust him. This week, in a peculiarly Chinese maneuver, the Kuomintang's Central Executive Committee summoned Generalissimo Chiang as President of the Executive Yuan (Premier) again, reducing Premier H. H. Kung to vice president. Then it issued a four-point manifesto, the most emphatic point of which was a refusal to join any anti-Comintern agreement...
...shade of John Graver Johnson and to the 49 underliers the decision was a blow. As late as 1928 the city was on the point of condemning their property for a handsome $149,000,000. But last week the 25,000 underlier stockholders got $31,973,597 worth of bonds bearing 3% interest ($959,207 a year) and another 3% if it is earned. The underliers also got $12,300,000 of preferred stock...
Jeff Davis, sickly, handsome, humorless, egocentric, unimaginative, contrasted almost as sharply with Lee as with Lincoln. Almost kicked out of West Point, where he was 23rd in a class of 33, he considered himself a military genius. At West Point too began his bitter feud with Joseph E. Johnston. Cause: a tavern keeper's daughter. Elected to the Presidency by accident (delegates preferred Toombs), he was bitterly assailed by his own colleagues. ("That scoundrel Jeff Davis," said Toombs.) A bad guesser, he made his worst guess when he tried to force English recognition by withholding cotton shipments. That notion...
...extra on Larz Anderson bridge with the final score and play-by-play account of the game. "Conant Resigns Presidency; Hutchins Named As Successor" was the headline of the Record's bogus issue distributed at Soldiers Field before the game, while "Harlow Resigns Post" was the 72 point banner on the News' effort which was delivered in the dormitories and Houses in the morning...