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...last year's champions only two will wrestle tonight to defend their titles. These are Milton Krook 2L and H. M. Kullman '27 The other 1926 champions were K. C. Williams 3L, H. G. Dorman '26, H. P. Wood '27, T. D. Howe '28 and S. S. Wilson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLING TOURNEY TO OPEN WITH 35 ENTRIES | 3/26/1927 | See Source »

...conclusion that it is receiving general condemnation. An Associated Press dispatch carries the headline. "Majority Opposed to Hopkins Ideas". Almost without exception this "majority opposed" is made up of professional coaches. When the source of a man's salary is attacked he will of course arise to defend it. While the personal bias thus introduced is quite natural it destroys any weight the opinion might otherwise have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAVORABLE REACTION | 3/23/1927 | See Source »

...came only a fortnight ago (TIME, March 7). Simultaneously the Southern generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek launched a swift attack to cut the Shanghai-Nanking railway at Soochow. The fall of Soochow (reported but unconfirmed) would cut off the Northern armies of the "two great Changs"† from hastening to defend Shanghai and leave the Shanghai area defenseless against the conquering Southern "Nationalist" or "Cantonese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Quiet Week | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

Last week it became known that Henry Ford for the first time in many years had been reached by a minion of the law. Result: he was scheduled to appear next week in federal court, Grand Rapids, to defend a $1,000,000 libel suit brought by famed farm-organizer, Aaron Sapiro, Jew, of Chicago. Inconspicuously, came news that Senator Reed had been retained as Mr. Ford's chief counsel. Ford-Reed-the hyphen would certainly not injure Presidential-Candidate Reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The 69th | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...last Minister of Interior Maximovitch rose to defend himself. He is a staunch royalist, a popular, impressive man. Feminine ears were attentive in the gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: First in History | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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