Word: allen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semi-pros, baseball is not a full-time job. The Bona Allens, like 50% of their bottom-crust classmen, are for the most part factory workers (at about $125 a month) for the company (Bona Allen leather company) that owns the team. The other half of the semi-pro class play on teams owned by small-town merchant groups or individuals with $5,000 and a yen to own a ball club. They include many a onetime major-leaguer on his way out, many a schoolboy on his way up. But the backbone of the semi-pros are barbers, butchers...
...Stuart, fastest Harlow back, had only the safety man to boat. The pass went just out of reach of that Nassau safety man, and Stuart clutched it, juggled it for a second, as he nestled it in his arms, and crossed the goal line standing up. Russ Allen was called back from the line to boot the ball squarely between the uprights to tie the game and put Harvard football where it belonged...
...exists also in the guard ranks, with the graduation of Allen, Nee and Klein. Question-marks are Chief Boston, out of spring practice due to illness and an appendix operation, center Tim Russell, injured practically all of last season, and Torby MacDonald, sensational wingback, who took the place of the injured Bob Stuart last year, but who has been harassed by leg-trouble since...
...Connor, chairman of the potent House Rules Committee, made frantic efforts to get the Republicans to back him against the White House candidate, one James H. Fay, deputy internal revenue collector. The Republicans decided he savored too strongly of Tammany Hall, last week named their own primary candidate: Allen Welsh Dulles, 45, lawyer, onetime (1916-26) State Department underling...
...Manhattan, John Scott, Negro, was arraigned on a charge of first-degree murder. John Scott was surprised. Said he: "Judge, I didn't even know that man I stabbed died." Said Judge William Allen: "This man was shot.'' Said John Scott: "No, judge, I stabbed him." Judge Allen checked up. The man wanted for the shooting was another Harlem Negro, also in the Tombs, also named John Scott. First John Scott was then arraigned for second-degree assault. Both John Scotts pleaded not guilty...