Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Warren T. McCray, 73, banker, stockman, onetime (1921-24) Republican Governor of Indiana; after a heart attack; at Kentland, Ind. Convicted of using the mails to defraud, he spent three years in Atlanta before being paroled in 1927, received a Christmas pardon from President Hoover...
Died. Gaston Bullock Means, 59, notorious national rascal, onetime Secret Service operator and private detective; of a heart attack; in Springfield, Mo., where he had been taken from Leavenworth Penitentiary for an operation. Born in North Carolina, Gaston Means at ten rode around the country eavesdropping on prospective jurors for his attorney-father. He joined the William J. Burns Detective Agency in 1910, then became a German spy, was later tried and acquitted of murdering a client. When the Bureau of Investigation hired him for War fraud investigations, he helped block them instead. Discharged, he supplied the Senate...
...Forbes '39 led the attack with seven goals in the fast, hard-riding contest before a capacity gallery. The Crimson men spotted Danvers two goals but went right into action to check up three goals in the first chukker for a lead that was pared down but never lost...
...Varsity took the lead early in the first period and held the Trojans at bay from then on, scoring one more in the same canto and the rest during a hectic third period on-slaught. Despite a fast-skating squad and a clever passing attack, the Canadian-manned Coast six never really seemed to get going against the steadier, back-checking Hoddermen...
...second period was fast but scoreless, with only the fine work of Dave Mitell in the Crimson goal preventing a relentless Trojan attack from succeeding. In the third canto a succession of power plays proved the visitors' final undoing, when their defense was unable to check back in time to prevent four Crimson successful jumps, one by Winslow and the rest by Harding...