Word: boston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week an eastern waterfront character named Jacob ("Beacon Jack") Lichter appeared in & around Boston. At Everett, one of Boston's seaport suburbs Mr. Lichter shortly appeared in effigy (see cut). He was deemed worth hanging by C. I. 0. seamen who, having called a strike on Standard Oil Tankers, took it for granted that "Beacon Jack" was around to recruit strike breakers...
...many pickets ganged up on Everett docks that local police called help from Boston, charged the union line, dodged rocks, pitched tear gas bombs, jailed 36 strikers. The union put gas masks on its pickets, threatened to bring in enough seamen to trounce the police...
Engagement Broken. Mary Ellery Channing, Boston post-debutante, and David Scrymgeour (pronounced skrimjer) Wedderburn, Royal Scots Guards officer, equerry to the Duke of Gloucester; in London...
...Will, containing several of the best lyrics in U. S. literature, attracted some attention. A year later he published North of Boston, a "book of people" so full of New England scenery and New England tones of voice that even foreigners could get the lay of the landscape and the hang of its inhabitants. His U. S. reputation thus established by his English success, when Frost returned to the U. S. in 1915 he found himself regarded as a famed American poet. In the next 22 years he received honorary degrees from 13 colleges, was thrice awarded the Pulitzer Prize...
Varsity vs. Boston Club--3 o'clock...