Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interrupted his law schooling, but overseas service in the 103rd Field Artillery was not bad training for a rising Pendergast. For Pendergast "Goats," there was still plenty of fistfighting to be done with Shannon "Rabbits" when Young Jim started at the bottom as precinct worker and pollbook carrier in his father's Tenth Ward. An apt pupil, he was ready to take over the ward when his father died in 1929. That year Young Jim's training for the succession began in earnest. Beginning to tire of 500 conferences per day, Big Boss Tom kept his nephew...
...foot short of a touchdown. Except for another goal-line stand, this time when the Redskins needed four yards to score, the rest of the game, roughest and grimmest of the season, was Boston's all the way. Ankle-deep mud slowed down the Giants' best ball carrier, Alphonse ("Tuffy") Leemans...
Tracing letters sent to Ginger Rogers demanding $5,000 on threat of kidnapping or death. Department of Justice agents trapped Sailor James F. Hall of the Navy aircraft carrier Lexington who explained that he had fallen in love with Cinemactress Rogers after seeing her dance in Follow the Fleet. Campaigning for birth control, Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn, mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, two sons and two other daughters, declared in New Haven, Conn.'s First Methodist Church: "If you aren't frank about sex, your children will never confide in you again. When I explained scientifically and specifically...
...depends on the germ carrier...
...running backs clear on off-tackle thrusts, supplemented by short passes to receiving backs. Like many other coaches this year, Northwestern's Waldorf capitalizes "mousetrap" plays-allowing an opposing lineman a clear path to the backfield where a back takes him out of the play allowing the ball carrier to step through the gap in the opposing line. Under Chick Meehan at Syracuse, Coach Waldorf learned to make players play well because they like it. He rarely bothers with scrimmages, sees to it that practice never interferes with study and has entirely eliminated locker-room oratory. Earnest, rotund, prematurely...