Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gulf. The annual game with Army became one of football's classics. Talk about the tough Irish schedules, Rockne's half-time orations, his famed Four Horsemen, his theatrical shift and the fancy footwork of Notre Dame backfields topped all football talk in the '20s. Gate receipts went up (last year, after carrying deficits from other sports, Notre Dame netted $240,000 from football)-and so did some new college buildings...
...Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney et al. Tough, wide-chested, hard-drinking Bill Dunne, the "Wild Bull from Montana," had come into the Party by way of the I.W.W. He had led striking copper miners in Butte, textile workers in Passaic, coal miners in West Virginia. During the '20s he had plotted with William Z. Foster and Earl Browder to dominate U.S. Communists. In nearly three decades in the class war, he had braved the cops, employer goons and deputies of a dozen states; had danced and quaffed champagne with beautiful Russian women in Stalin's Moscow...
...Hand. After years of mismanagement, AVCO was so close to death it was hardly breathing. Nevertheless, there were plenty who wanted a chance at the carcass. Errett Lobban Cord, a brass young auto salesman who had skyrocketed up in the golden '20s,-and put out a slinky car bearing his name-controlled AVCO. But to a cunning infighter like V.E., with the well-heeled Schroders again in his corner, it was the work of only a few months to knock out Cord* and take over the company in August...
...unpalatable mixture of chestnuts and corn. This movie succeeds in blending the inevitable flavors so smoothly that very young cinemagoers who never heard Jolson -and oldsters who were never enthusiastic about him-may now understand why he was one of America's favorite entertainers during the frenzied '20s...
Died. Charles W. Seiberling, 85, longtime rubber tycoon, who, with his brother Frank, founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., lost control of it in the '20s, bounced back with the Seiberling Rubber Co.; in Akron...