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...Powell reported that the mob of hundreds, wearing red hatbands and armed with table-legs and other handy cudgels, "gained admittance when a two-ton truck backed up ... and forced the doors. Everything was seized and destroyed, from lead pencils to printing presses. . . . The mob stormed the building and threw furnishings into the street [and burned them], smashed machinery and turned on water taps on several floors. The offices of Geraldo Rocha, proprietor of A Noite and one of the richest industrialists of Brazil, were entered and the furnishings wrecked. Rocha was not there at the time. Ismael Maia, manager...
Inspector McWade's testimony threw into unhappy relief earlier references to Lord Thomson's apparent haste. Attorney General Sir William Allen Jowitt had cor respondence to show that the air minister was chafing to start by late September, be back by Oct. 16. One letter was quoted: "I must insist on the program for the India flight being adhered to, as I have made my plans accordingly." Observed Sir William...
...first time in his college career as a varsity back, in spite of the tumbling Army gave him a week before, Albie Booth played every minute of a game. Once he danced around end and over the Dartmouth goal line, but the touchdown was called back on penalty. He threw away another score by trying a pass on the 17-yard line, fourth down, two yards to go. The rest of the afternoon was a bucking match in which two able lines proved their ability to stop two able back-fields. Dartmouth 0, Yale...
Alabama won its sixth game in succession and Kentucky lost its first of the season when Moore threw a 44-yard pass to Suther, who was waiting on the five-yard line. Alabama made it 19 to 0 before the afternoon was over...
Outstanding in the passing attack was Huguley who, in getting his first real chance of the year, threw and caught passes with unerring accuracy. He also outpunted Wheeler in Harvard's best kicking exhibition of the year. Co-starring with Huguley was Moushegian, who played a superlative game at end and made several of the hardest tackles of the season...