Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Driving ahead against small sit-downs, Detroit Police next marched up to the Newton Packing Co. plant, called on the sitters to come out. To Sheriff Wilcox chagrin they promptly dropped their weapons, sheepishly filed out to be arrested for contempt of court. Some 100 women sitters in the Bernard Schwartz Cigar Corp. factory gave the officers more trouble, kicked, squealed, squirmed as they were driven out. When watching sympathizers began to pelt the police with rock-cored snowballs, 20 mounted officers charged into the crowd with nightsticks swinging. At that, Detroit's sympathy began swinging back...
...paper's books would not bear auditing. Headed by Managing Director Eugene MacLean, onetime Washington Post general manager, the Observer editors promptly asked a court for an assignee to preserve the weekly's remaining assets. Next thing the staff knew, New York State Assistant Attorney General Bernard Abramson was in the office on "an anonymous tip" looking over the ledgers, and shaking his head at what he saw. Neville, who had not been seen for several days, was soon found and arrested. He confessed his peculations to Mr. Abramson, exonerated all his Manhattan and Boston associates. By week...
More significant, possibly, to the majority of American readers, is an Englishman's opinion of this country and its people. He speaks as a qualified judge, moreover, and is fortunately lacking in the caustic, and prejudiced condemnation which characterizes Bernard Shaw. On the one hand he condemns us for our anxiety to be "good fellows" while on the other he praises us for our democracy. Where he is unfavorable in his criticism, he is usually just, and try as we may, we cannot overlook the truth of his remarks...
...Malcolm Bodwell McTernen, Jr. 302 Charles Colmery Gibson 279 Leavitt Sargent White 267 Rolf Kaltenborn 208 Peter Hobart Knapp 170 Perry James Culver 165 Daniel Erskine Burbank, Jr. 153 James Arnott Elliott Wood 151 Walter Hines Page, 2nd 148 Curtis Prout 146 Francis Gorham Brigham, Jr. 138 William Bernard Berssenbrugge 132 Edward Lorraine Young, 3rd 125 Charles Wheeler O'Conor 116 David Blanding McIntosh 112 Lorrin Ewart Woodman 93 Frederick Philip Glike 80 Forrest Theodore Foss 71 For Class Day Committee: (7) George Steven Ford 379 Thomas Herbert Bilodeau...
...crowd were George Giannini, Clark Gable, Mrs. E. L. Doheny, Gene Tunney, Adolph Bernard Spreckels, Joe Di Maggio, Rupert Hughes. Comedian Joe E. Brown gave his guests a box lunch in the grand stand. Cinemagent Zeppo Marx, whose brothers spent the day working in a picture called A Day at the Races, bet $1,000 on Chanceview. Cinemactress Simone Simon bet $2 on Grand Manitou. Paulette Goddard wore the black hat which she considers lucky. There were 13,000 cars in the 85-acre parking...