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...funds for the scrubwomen and has placed posters and buckets all over Cambridge in giving the affair publicity. One of the buckets, evidently one in which sympathizers were to throw their contributions, was hung on a lampost on Massachusetts Avenue, not far from Walter Hastings Hall. Captain M. J. Brennan, of the Cambridge station ordered two of his subordinates to seize the bucket and the poster in accordance with a city ordinance that prohibits the posting of advertisements on lamposts, telephone poles, and the like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Seize Poster and Bucket Placed on Lampost by the Harvard Square Deal Association--Recalls Cohen Incident | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

Starting off to a poor beginning Raquel Torres, ocC rallied against his aggressive opponent E. F. Hutchins '30 in the 175-pound class to win by a decision. Torres also won in the 160-pound class, scoring a win over James Brennan by a technical knockout. In both these bouts Torres displayed his endurance and ability to take punishment and so his skill at beating off the blows rained around him opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS HELD YESTERDAY IN HEMENWAY | 3/20/1930 | See Source »

...Cornell. Madeleine Smith was real, and the playwrights have sought to impart a like reality to their heroine. She lives in a sedate, tapestried mansion in Manhattan's Washington Square, has a dignified father, a smart dress shop on Madison Avenue, a generous and platonic gentleman friend named Larry Brennan. Her suitor is a rich and personable Englishman. Her lover is a Latin cabaret dancer. She goes to his rooms in the night, succumbs for the last time to his tender voice and hands, and in the early dawn, when he is less persuasive, poisons him with strychnine filched from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 17, 1930 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

Score--Columbia 44, Harvard 17. Goals--Gregory 5, Jones 4, Schoenfeld 3. Tys 3, Rex 3. Nido 2, Mahady, Lautkin. Joyce. Fouls--Pierce 3, Schoenfeld 3. Joyce 3, Jones 2, Gregory 2, Mahady 2. Referee--Orson Kinney. Umpire--Frank Brennan. Time--20-minute halves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON QUINTET WINS AND LOSES ON FIRST TRIP | 1/3/1930 | See Source »

...Pawnee. Okla., two officers arrested Tom Vernon, alias Tom Brennan. Deputy Sheriff Thomas J. Higgins of Los Angeles, who had stalked Vernon across six states, charged him with wrecking and robbing a Southern Pacific train near Saugus, Cal. last month. Sheriff Gus Romsa of Cheyenne was on hand to charge him also with last week's Wyoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: For Wife & Kids | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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