Word: casey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange variety of in carnations before being merged by Hearst two years ago (TIME, Sept. 9, 1929) had been going since the swashbuckling, law less 1850's. James King of William, editor of the Bulletin and the West's first crusader, had been assassinated by James Casey, leader of the corrupt politicians...
...vigilantes were formed to avenge King of William; and "when Casey's body swung from a rope, law was born." In the next few years the Call and Bulletin together fought many a sensational campaign, notably that of 1875 against financier William C. Ralston, pride of San Francisco, builder of the famed old Palace Hotel. The papers accused him of dishonesty, ruined him, supposedly drove him to suicide, were nearly mobbed by the inflamed populace...
...Newark, N. J.. John Casey, 17, was held in jail in default of $10 bail for ogling maidens from a lamp post. John Casey broke out of jail, went home and got $10. On his way back to jail to deposit the bail, he was arrested again, held without bail for jailbreaking...
Harvard, coached this year by one-time (1916, 1919) Halfback Eddie Casey, has a different sort of team, a team that has won most of its games by a conservative, powerful ground attack, supplemented by passes which were more popular a few years ago than they are now- long, risky forwards which need an expert passer at one end, an expert receiver at the other. Harvard's best running backs are Crickard and Schereschewsky; Nazro and Hageman are brilliant ends. But the essence of Harvard football this year, as Booth has been the essence of Yale football since...
...criticizing instead of reporting. Harvard's Athletic Director William Bingham wrote to President William Paley of Columbia Broadcasting Co. to say that Announcer Husing might never again broadcast games at Soldiers Field. Announcer Husing's account of the Harvard-Army game had sounded crabbed to Harvardmen. Coach Casey had refused to show Husing diagrams of Harvard plays or let him watch practice. The Harvard-Yale game will be broadcast by Ralph ("Gil") Gilroy, a South Bostonian whom Harvardmen well remember as a hard- boiled Princeton halfback...