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Meanwhile last week The Scheme was rapidly falling to pieces as members of the Non-intervention Committee consulted their home governments and received instructions. The Soviet Government threw a monkey wrench by insisting that all volunteers must have withdrawn from Spain before Moscow will agree to granting belligerent rights to Franco. The Italian Government threw an equally deadly spanner, although loudly blaming Moscow for having already caused the wreck, by declaring that Italy could not promise to be bound by findings of the Committee as to the number of volunteers on each side in Spain and consequently...
Almost two quarters passed of play before the sky could no longer hold back its tears. They were first sobs, blown against the cheek by the wind. Small, individual parts of the mass buttoned coats, donned cellophane slickers, threw newspapers over their heads. The sobs became hysterical weeping, and water slashed upon the stands and upon twenty-two men playing like intent children with a pigskin...
...appeal the Florida State Supreme Court threw out the convictions on the ground that evidence on a conspiracy count had been admitted after the conspiracy count was dropped. A second trial, this time on charges of second-degree murder, opened in Bartow last fortnight. Following the dictates of the higher court Judge Dewell ruled out all evidence leading up to the time the victims were released at the police station. Thus the prosecution had to build its case on the recollections of the two survivors, Eugene F. Poulnot, head of the Florida Workers' Alliance, and Samuel R. Rogers...
...Sergei Koussevitzky and his Boston Symphony Orchestra mounted a temporary dais, tuned up while into the clattery room for cocktails and canapés crammed some 4,000 men & women attending the 63rd annual convention of the American Bankers Association. In a din so constant that Maestro Koussevitzky once threw up his hands and stamped off the stage, the orchestra proceeded to play...
Most annoying play in football is when a winning touchdown is canceled by a penalty. Tennessee's Wood last week threw a pass to Duncan for a touchdown against Duke in the first quarter, but someone was offside. Therefore when the final whistle blew, Coach Wallace Wade had succeeded in preserving unblemished his record of never having a team defeated on Duke's "Homecoming Day." Score...