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...seven Harvard victories have been against Dr University 7-0, Penn character School 9-6, Gilman School 11-2, Milton Academy 16-6, St, Mark's 24-2, Exeter 3-1 abd "Governor Dummer Academy 19-3. The secon loss was to St. John's 7-4, In addition to Thayer academy, Tufts has defeated Huntington school 18-9, and tied the Boten University Freshmen14...
...market was a God-given market. Senator Couzens: That is a new one. Senator Adams: Are you sure as to the source? Mr. Wiggin: No sir. One pool, run in the God-given market of the summer of 1929, was used jointly by the securities company's subsudiary abd by Shermar Corp., † the Wiggin family holding company, to sell holdings of Chase stock. It sold over 50,000 shares of the Wiggin family's stock at boom prices and besides had a cash profit of $1,452,000 from operations. No crime did the investigators attempt...
...eyed blond. Unlike the Arabs who once conquered them, they are honest and straightforward. Their active, often pretty women go unveiled, enjoy more rights than Arab women. Remembering that they thrice conquered Spain, 25,000 nomad Berbers have been unable to accept the defeat in 1926 of their leader Abd-el-Krim. Brave, pious, made ferocious by constant pursuit, they have enlisted a mixed crew of bandits and murderers from the mountains, massacred many an unwary French detail. Against them the French have plodded remorselessly under tall, spectacled General Andre Hure who sends home terse casualty lists, plods...
...Geographic Section of the General Staff. Four months later he was sent to Egypt. There, besides making himself a thorn in the flesh of red-taped, uninformed superiors, he did such jobs as edit a handbook of information about the Turkish Army, containing such unsoldierly comments as "General Abd el Mahmoud commanding the ?th Division is half-Albanian by birth and a consumptive; an able officer and a gunnery expert; but a vicious scoundrel, and will accept bribes." Chafing at the restrictions and routine of army life in Cairo. Lawrence cast an envious eye at the Arab revolt just...
...Finally His Majesty decided to play surgeon, cut open the stomach of a concubine ''to see what was inside." Soon afterward French doctors formally certified that His Majesty was mad and in 1905 he was banished to Reunion Island off the coast of Madagascar. On Reunion today languishes famed Abd-el-Krim, onetime bandit-chieftain of Morocco, who displeased the French exceedingly by fighting them with vigor, castrating captured Legionnaires (TIME, Sept...