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According to the Japanese Government Railways, the jujitsu match was for the best two falls out of three. First, Minister Uchida threw Mrs. Mayer, then she threw him. After that "they feinted and tossed and writhed and grunted for a full half hour" on the matting until Minister Uchida thoroughly subdued Mrs. Mayer and won the match. Said he gallantly: "She is the most adept Englishwoman at jujitsu I have ever...
...Toronto, somebody threw the body of a middle-aged woman in through a window in the reading room of the University of Toronto library. Newspapers reported: "Police are working on a murder theory...
...Jerome Herman Dean was born in Holdenville, Okla. in 1911. His father was an impoverished junkman and cotton picker. His mother died when he was 4. Jerome Dean began pitching to his brother, two years his junior, with a ball made out of yarn wrapped around a stone. He threw stones at squirrels until his aim was deadly. By the time he was 12, he was invited to pitch for the baseball team of a nearby high school which, because he had left grammar school after the fourth grade, he was too ignorant to attend. At 16, he enlisted...
...proposed repudiation threw Canada into an uproar. Conservative newspapers thundered about disastrous repercussions on Ontario's credit, if not that of the whole Dominion. Securities tumbled. Protective committees tossed out advertisements asking: "If Hon. Mr. Hepburn is RIGHT, the courts will uphold him. So why deny an appeal?" In Ottawa the Federal Government feared that Hon. Mr. Hepburn's move would put bad ideas in the heads of other politicians...
...Code had been in effect for more than a year. New York City authorities were amazed to learn that the price had jumped to 82?. Furthermore, they had received 13 bids from 13 different companies all quoting an identical price. That was more than Mayor LaGuardia could stand. He threw out all bids, demanded that NRA investigate...