Word: carr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Francis Carr Jr. '28 of Cambridge was elected captain of the University soccer team yesterday afternoon...
...Carr, who prepared at Cambridge Latin School, played on the 1928 Freshman team and for the last two years on the University squad. In his position of halfback, he has been in every moment of play throughout the past season. During the Yale game he showed himself one of the Crimson's star players, scoring one of Harvard's three goals...
...that elected him Sheriff of Cook County (Chicago) by a plurality of 125,000, the largest given to any Democrat on the ticket. And then suddenly his smile twisted into agony-sharp, devastating pain arose within him. The doctors said: "Ulcers of the stomach." In the Mercy Hospital "Paddy" Carr suffered, writhed and dreamed. Perhaps he visioned a spunky newsboy laughing in spite of the stench sf the Union Stock Yards, a lumber shover on a schooner coming up; the Chicago River, a sidewalk inspector with ambition, an alderman whose jokes were understandable, a county treasurer who did not annoy...
...funeral procession, five miles long, rumbled solemnly behind the corpse of "Paddy" Carr, beloved hero of the sidewalks of Chicago...
Died. Patrick J. ("Paddy") Carr, 46, sheriff-elect of Cook County (Chicago); of ulcers of the stomach...