Word: crawfords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Gould of Fredericktown, Pa. had a telegram from home: ". . . Local Union 688, with a membership of 750, wish to protest the speech of John L. Lewis attacking the Honorable President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party." Local Union 2399 in Richeyville, Pa. similarly instructed its Delegate Elgie Crawford. Delegate E. D. Hosey of Minden, W. Va. announced that his home folks were baffled and "backing President Roosevelt 100% for a third term." Like-minded were 26 more locals, 27 delegates who dared dissent from disgruntled Mr. Lewis. His resolutions committee, framing a formal expression for the convention, made...
Brother Rat and a Baby (Warner Bros.) should prove embarrassing to Virginia Military Institute as the graduates from Brother Rat, Bing Edwards (Eddie Albert), Billy Randolph (Wayne Morris), Dan Crawford (Ronald Reagan), project their prankish adolescence into extramural life. In the absence of one Mr. Harper they move into his apartment, smash a priceless ship model, pilfer and pawn an invaluable Stradivarius, appropriate $200 Harper has left in Bing's care, finally burn up the apartment, for which Bing has forgotten to mail the insurance policy. "Anyway," says one prankster, "Mr. Harper still has his life." It is distinctly...
...XIII, verse 1): "Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity. . . ." Often his daughter Dorothy heard him. She became an evangelist, too. Last month, aged 75, when crossing a Manhattan street against a red light, Frank Clarry was killed by Negro Motorist Moe Crawford. Moe was charged with homicide, clapped into the Tombs. Dorothy Clarry got the charge dismissed. Said she: "The poor fellow wasn't to blame." She visited his wife and four children, found Mrs. Crawford ailing, all five hungry. For Mrs. Crawford she got a doctor; for the family, food...
Last week Moe Crawford faced the final count against him - driving a car with defective brakes. Found guilty, he was fined $5. On hand with the $5 was Frank Clarry's daughter. When the magistrate told her that only four hours of the alternative one-day jail sentence remained, she did the next best thing, sent coffee and sandwiches to remorseful Moe Crawford...
This one is about David Niven as a magician whose hand is ever so much quicker than Broderick Crawford's eye. Result: he gets the gal, Loretta Young in this case. The old chestnut about the society girl running off with an entertainer is once again with us, but aside from a few emotional lapses, the picture is good...