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...case this year. In spite of the misfortune for Mr. Davis which has risen from the fact that he has been labeled "a lawyer of the big business interests," the fact remains that these same interests seem more inclined to contribute to the Coolidge than the Davis campaign chest. But a report came out of Washington that, at President Coolidge's orders, the Republicans are going to limit their campaign expense to 2½ or 3 million dollars. This is less than half the amount which the Republicans spent in 1920, and offers the Democrats an opportunity of coming...
...Times, British newspapers chimed in on the post-mortems with notes for the most part sour. The Times flatly asserted that the games had inflamed international animosities, bluntly suggested they be discontinued. The chief British grievances were: a boxing episode, when a Frenchman bit his English opponent on the. chest; the hooliganism of the French crowd at the fights. The Times also said: "It should be clearly put on record that the Americans behaved admirably." Italians were exercised over the disqualification of an overweening swords- man. Holland grumbled at general ill-treatment. France grumbled at a $500,000 deficit. American...
...Harvard engaged this promising "radical" to direct Hemenway Gymnasium. When he relin- quished the position, 40 years later, he had furnished the country with "chest weights" and other body-building machinery, had brought Harvard's strength-index up 25%, had introduced an "anthropometric" (strength-measuring) formula now in wide use, had supervised the physical education of scores of athletes and hundreds of gymnastic teachers...
...first thought that the Premier had been fatally wounded, but subsequent investigation showed that the bullet had merely gone through the fleshy part of his right forearm and skinned the chest muscles of his right side...
...Strangler) Lewis, called upon to guard his world's heavyweight wrestling championship from the brawny grasp of Stanley Stasiak in Boston, was enraged to find Stanley perched upon his heaving chest after 34 minutes. Two falls in three being the match, "Strangler" controlled himself for 10 minutes and then hurled Stanley bodily out of the ring. Stanley was boosted back in, embraced powerfully about the head, sat upon by his huge antagonist. Two minutes later this operation was repeated. Lewis stalked to the shower, his frame, dignity and title unimpaired...