Word: armageddons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team. After a season of phenomenal success. McGloin accepts a post-season game against an obscure team called Lake Shore University. Soon after the contest starts, McGloin realizes what has happened: Lake Shore University is backed by a Chicago gang as shameless as his own. The game becomes an armageddon in which machine guns rattle, bombs are thrown, punts shot down. Presently no one much is left except the appalled press agent and a pretty girl sportswriter (Nell O'Day). Rackety Rax was adapted from Joel Sayre's brief novel first published in the American Mercury last January...
...Chicago convention's resolutions committee which will carpenter the platform President Hoover selected James Rudolph Garfield, 66-year-old son of the 20th President of the U. S.* This tall, solemn, white-haired Cleveland lawyer served as Secretary of the Interior under Roosevelt, stood by him "at Armageddon...
...Depression is just another link in the chain of evidence which is fulfilling the scriptural prophecies about the second coming of Christ, of Armageddon and the 1,000 years of peace to follow...
...sidewalk directing two plumbers in a basement. And Walter Stevens, whom police called the "Dean of Chicago gunmen," died at the age of 70 from pneumonia. It might have been a dull period for the nation's crime reporters had not the scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded: ¶Early one morning the body of Frank Marco, alias Callahan, gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time...