Word: assaults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey is not famed as a Negro-hating state but the population (700) of Alloway, N. J., is pure white and proud of it. Last week Allowayans felt thoroughly satisfied when a jury convicted their townswoman, Mrs. Lillian Fleming, of "atrocious assault and battery...
...normal senses would go down hook, line, and sinker on Harvard or Yale to win the November 23 classic. Too many things can happen before then. Head Coach Horween of Harvard has a job on his hands to lay his plans for a successful assault against Holy Cross next Saturday, without jeopardizing the prospects against Yale, but Harvard has been through four hard-fought games on the last four Saturdays and there is less of a mental strain this week for the Crimson than there is for Yale in pointing for its traditional clash with Princeton. One reason for this...
Under Brevet-Brigadier La Follette, the Coalition troops marched forth to open their attack at Chemical Corner, behind which they thought lurked the Dye Trust. ' Their first day's assault was successful. Five Republican generals (Couzens, Jones of Washington, Glenn, Robinson of Indiana, Thomas of Idaho), were made prisoners. The regular Republicans were driven back to the 1913 (Underwood Tariff) line in the gallic acid segment and were hustled out of their trenches (45 to 33) in the tannic acid sector...
...reverse on the barbed wire entanglements of the Power Trust. (Power companies supply electricity to manufacture calcium in plants widely scattered over the U. S.) Thirteen Democrats with power or carbide plants in their States broke ranks in the face of the enemy, refused to charge. The assault to halve the ifz'-per-lb. rate was repulsed by the regular Republicans...
Convicted. Alexander Pantages, vaudeville circuit owner; of criminal assault upon one Eunice Pringle, 17, dancer; in Los Angeles. Sentence: one to 50 years' imprisonment in San Quentin Prison, with clemency recommended. Mrs. Pantages was convicted last month on a manslaughter charge...