Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Potter D'Orsay Palmer, 34, madcap, four-times-married grandson of Chicago's late rich hotelkeeper and merchant; of a cerebral hemorrhage; four days after a brawl he had started at a barbecue; in Sarasota, Fla. Last year his brother Honore, 29, died while doing setting up exercises in Manhattan (TIME...
...Governor Pat Morris Neff into granting a pardon to the coal-black, swampland Negro who sang it. The Negro, Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter, self-styled "King of de twelve-string guitar players of de worl'," had been sentenced seven years before for murdering another Negro in a brawl over a woman. Out of jail, Lead Belly combined his career of gin, women and song with a job in a Houston Buick agency. Five years later, in 1930, Lead Belly was jugged again, this time in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, convicted of stabbing six Negroes in a fight over...
...discussing the Class Dance question, let's keep "Joe College" out of the picture. We want no rah-rah affair, but there is nothing to prove that a Junior Prom week-end at Harvard would take on the aspect of a University of Miami brawl. Hobart A. Lerner...
...espousing lost causes, living up to his ideals but not to his talents, he scorns worldly success, of course never gets it. At the end, all the rapscallion, intriguing, turncoat ne'er-do-wells on whom he has sprinkled his life join him in a rowdy, surrealistic, drunken brawl...
...page from his past which may embarrass him: his report to Harry Hopkins last June after a flying visit to Kentucky, saying that he found no evidence of political improprieties by WPAsters in the notorious Barkley-Chandler primary brawl...