Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jeremiah Kelly tripped & fell trying to get away, broke a leg. Oscar Snatch was convicted on the ground that he had kidnapped his rival for "ransom or reward or otherwise." Since the victim was missing seven days, the law presumed he had been transported in interstate commerce. The jury chose to believe a State line had been crossed, recommended the death penalty because Candidate Kelly had not been released unharmed...
...Nancy Traylor Swift, 23, daughter of the late Chicago Banker Melvin Alvah Traylor, divorced last June from Nathan Butler Swift, meat-packing scion; and Marcy T. Weeks, 25, onetime tintype concessionaire at the Century of Progress Mexican Village; at Chicago's City Hall. For a witness they chose Bartender Dino Sbragio "because we hoped to avoid publicity .... The marriage itself was a very mechanical affair...
...Catholic. The Laetare Medal, a gold disc bearing a rose and a device suggesting the recipient's vocation, has gone to such Catholics as Alfred Emanuel Smith, Actress Margaret Anglin, Tenor John McCormack, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady, now Mrs. Macaulay. Last week, for its 1937 award, Notre Dame chose a Catholic pedagog: Dr. Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, 63, chairman of the department of Romance Languages at Harvard University...
...Ding" Darling was a tired but happy man. Year ago, at a North American Wildlife Conference in Washington, nature-lovers and gunners who had hitherto spent their energies fighting each other agreed to get together and fight for wildlife. Sinking their crotchets in a temporary General Wildlife Federation, they chose "Ding" for temporary president. Then they went home to enlist women's clubs, garden clubs, camera clubs, Audubon societies and sportsmen's associations in State Federations. To the second North American conference in St. Louis last week went 800 representatives of 46 State Federations with some...
...chairman of United, did not return to the Boeing factory. At present he is a partner in the potent New York Stock Exchange firm of E. A. Pierce & Co. To succeed him in Boeing, the stockholders, no one of whom now owns more than 10% of the stock, chose shy Clairmont Leroy Egtvedt, 44, who entered the plant in 1917 as a draftsman...