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Officially, no country ever wins the Olympic Games. Scores are kept only for individual events in which the first three contestants get respectively gold, silver and bronze medals. Unofficially, sportswriters long ago worked out a system to determine team championships by awarding ten points for first place, five for second...
(4 of 7) Manchukuo, which has thus far been recognized only by Japan and El Salvador, this abrupt exit was almost equivalent to "breaking off diplomatic relations"'-the traditional prelude to war. In the capital of Manchukuo, snow-bound Hsinking, the Japanese-directed government of Emperor Kang Te branded...
Manhattan-born in 1791 of English stock, shrewd, self-made Peter Cooper pioneered in iron manufacturing, built the first U. S. steam locomotive ("Tom Thumb"), promoted the first transatlantic cables, built one of the first big U. S. fortunes. An industrialist and inventor of genius, he won his most lasting...
The students rioted more & more savagely as Anthony Eden read on & on. Urgent cables from the British High Commissioner in Cairo caused "Tony" annoyance. Here he was a new Foreign Secretary, with his career to make, and the Egyptians would not wait for his orderly Eton mind to absorb the...
Refugees' Reception. Cables announced that every newspaper in London was sending reporters and cameramen to meet the Lindbergh ship at Liverpool, that to guard against a possible Lindbergh dodge some journals were sending men to Cobh, Belfast and Glasgow.