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...stamp out "fifth-column stuff" among the nation's tramps, Jeff Davis ("King of the Hobos") announced the formation of a hobo constabulary to be known as Jungle Bulls,* under the command of famed gate-crasher "One Eye" Connolly. Said King Davis: "Hobos are the best friends this country has. They're loyal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 10, 1940 | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

With bad taste and good propaganda, an uninvited guest crashed Panama City last week where a party for representatives of the 21 American countries was gathering. The party folks were all Americans, all Lima conferees, all concerned with keeping the American hemisphere out of war. The crasher was a belligerent, a German, an official-Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German minister accredited to all Central American countries-and he brought with him a staff of assistants whose names and number were a guarded secret. Throughout South America, German propaganda agencies simultaneously charged that the parley was merely a device by which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAS: No Big Brother | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...methods of getting into those affairs," the noted crasher went on, "I have many. The most embarrassing, of course, is when I have to resort to a butler's uniform and go in through the kitchen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fanatic Moocher Crashes Gates of Most Deb Parties | 2/23/1939 | See Source »

...Nebraska farmers this time come very near to typifying the attitude of the country as a whole towards the present political season. At Houston, where the Democrats convene soon after, interest reached apt a low pitch that Tex Rickard engaged "one-Eye' Connoly, champion gate-crasher in the world, to crash the gates at the convention and supply and element of competition that would otherwise be lacking. With the choice of each party fairly certain and there being an even stronger certainly that the one real issue, prohibition, will never find expression in the platforms, most of the nation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOLF! WOLF! | 6/12/1928 | See Source »

...deference to a testimonial tendered Mr. Tompkins, at which the following programme will be presented: "Lady of Lyons," Mr. William Redmund, Fraser Coulter, Mrs. Thos. Barry, and others. "OEdipus Tyrannus," Mr. George Riddle, Miss Rachel Noah. "Virginius," Mr. John McCullough in the title role. Songs, Miss Franklin. "Slasher and Crasher," Messrs. John T. Raymond, D. J. Maguinnis, and others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEATRICAL ATTRACTIONS THIS WEEK. | 5/22/1882 | See Source »

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