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...still clenched in his teeth. As he lunged for the boxes of proxies, the rest closed in. From the yelling confusion of heads, chairs, fists, feet and brief cases, three figures finally emerged: Mr. Bennett safely through the door with his proxies ; Lawyer Powers slammed against a wall; Lawyer Carney dashing for a telephone to summon the police, crying: "That man [Powers] committed assault & battery upon me. I'll have him arrested." Lawyer Powers, regaining his composure, gruffed: "Ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Meetings | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...time the fire was extinguished Mr. Bennett had dissuaded his irate attorney from having Lawyer Powers arrested and soon brought back the proxies. Lawyer Carney cooled less quickly. "I suppose you don't call that evidence," said he, exposing his bruised shin to Mr. Powers' complacent gaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Meetings | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Princeton maintained that the NRA has already produced a higher social order and has provided employment for millions. The debaters on the winning team were Edwin S. Carney, Gordon A. Craig, and Edward F. Pritchard: Harvard's team consisted of Julius S. Bach, Jr. '36, Morris J. Litwack '36, and George Gore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORPORATION DECIDES TO RECOGNIZE DEBATING | 11/29/1933 | See Source »

...Holly, N. J., Ralph Eshelman, bread wagon driver, noticed on two successive days that Joseph Carney, dumb cripple, was peering out of his window, tapping feebly on the pane. On the third day Eshelman broke in the door, found famished Joseph Carney alone with the body of his mother, two days dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 27, 1933 | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

There was a fine gentleman by name of Carney for years in charge of the Square. He knew all the active leaders in college, all the bad actors, all the Harvard Square "students." Carney was always wise enough to be able to steer any incipient riots into the Yard, where everything died quietly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Good Old Carney | 6/8/1932 | See Source »

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