Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were "certainly innocent" of any crime. At Mount Vernon, Ga., black S. S. Mincey, local G. 0. Politician, pressed his partisan agitation too far for the comfort of Democrats. A masked mob dragged him from his home, beat in his skull, left him to die from concussion of the brain. At Thomasville, Ga., black Lacy Mitchell dared to testify against two white men charged with raping a Negro woman. Four men, the defendants' friends, dragged Lacy Mitchell from his home, shot him dead...
Died. Dr. Carl Joachim Stimming, 55, general director of North German Lloyd; of an embolism after a fall in which he suffered concussion of the brain and kidney injuries; in Hamburg. Prior to the World War Dr. Stimming was employed by the Imperial Naval Office at Kiel and in the Naval Ministry. Member of the Norddeutscher Lloyd board at the end of the War, he saw the fleet reduced to a handful of small, obsolete ships. For Dr. Slimming, who succeeded Philip Heineken as director in 1921, was the colossal task of rebuilding the line. In 1927 he succeeded...
...York office will be the eyes, ears and brain of National Credit Corp. Its many fingers, long enough to reach any bank in the country, are National Credit Associations set up in subdivisions of the twelve Reserve districts, each presided over by a local chairman. (Federal Reserve District No. 2, comprising New York State and parts of New Jersey and Connecticut, has 13 Associations.) Members of each Association will collectively stand back of all loans made in their district. National Credit Corp. thus divided becomes responsibly mobile, its loans in any district authorized only by those who know local conditions...
...Haven Hospital, where Sheridan was taken in an ambulance, he was attended by three doctors, one of whom was Dr. Harvey Cushing, famed brain and nerve specialist. The great Yaleman and disciple of the late great Sir William Osler was in New Haven for a surgeons' conference on the day of the game. Dr. Cushing found that Sheridan had a broken neck, said he might live, under artificial respiration, for minutes, hours or days. After 48 hours he died. He was buried with full military honors due a soldier fallen in the Service of his country...
Wonder Boy is a savage, undisciplined, hilarious comedy of the cinemindustry, presented in the breathless manner for which producer Jed Harris (Broadway, The Front Page) is famed. Peter Hinkle (William Challee), a youth without a brain in his head, wants to become a dentist, gets a part in a film to pay his way to New York. President Phil Mashkin (Gregory Ratoff) of the Paragon Pictures Corp., seeking a way to get rid of Star Mabel Fenton (Hazel Dawn), hits upon the idea of making Peter Hinkle a star. On his way to New York Peter is pounced upon, rushed...