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Striding forward, Commissioner Foote threatened to wipe out the entire settlement unless the Arab villagers produced and delivered to the British the aged Sheik Farhan al Sadi. After this 75-year-old Arab dignitary had been told of the British ultimatum, he crawled out of a wheat bin, gave himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Acre Justice | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Attempting to wipe out cheating at the University an investigating organization of students has been started under the title of GTG, Gyp the Gypers, according to the News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheating in Exams Discussed at Yale Students' Meeting | 11/30/1937 | See Source »

...polls last week, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, Boss of Jersey's Democracy, opined that his candidate for Governor, Senator A. Harry Moore, would carry his Hudson County stronghold by 130,000 votes. Candidate Moore carried Hudson County by 129,000 votes. Since this was enough to wipe out the leads piled up by his Republican opponent, Preacher Lester H. Clee, in most other New Jersey counties and give Moore a Statewide margin of 744,311-to-699,454, Candidate Clee and his Republican friends promptly charged that their Hudson County workers had been intimidated, began, clamoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Figures | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Proud Minnesota, whose only defeat this year came at the hands of Nebraska, was expected to wipe out defeats of former years by beating Notre Dame. Instead, fighting all afternoon against great odds, the best Minnesota could do was uncork an extravagant pass, Christiansen to Gmitro to Van Every to King, for one touchdown. Score: Notre Dame 7, Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mid-Season | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Garden of Adonis Author Gordon unexpectedly opens up at close contemporary range to kill off the Yankee opinion which attributes the evils of sharecropping to Southern landlords. That few casualties bite the dust is due chiefly to Guerrilla-Author Gordon's scattering fire, in her overanxiety to wipe out the entire enemy at one try. A possible source of her anxious haste may be the fear of being shot in the back by such unreliable Southern allies as William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Guerrilla | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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