Word: crookes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long after the Army had adopted the Garand, the Marines held off, sticking by the tried-&-true Springfield rifle until they could crook their fingers around a suitable semiautomatic. Last November and December the Marines tested four guns: the Springfield; a revamped, improved version of the Army's Garand; Boston Inventor Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr.'s rival semiautomatic; and a new Winchester semiautomatic. Last week the Marine Corps delighted the Army's ordnance officers by officially adopting the Garand as the Corps's standard rifle. Captain Johnson himself (now reasonably content with...
...rates as the bluntest broadcast he ever heard James Roosevelt's defense of his business activities in reply to an attack by Alva Johnston. Excerpt from the Roosevelt script: "I have a feeling that being the President's son, some people would be calling me a crook no matter what business I had entered, providing I'd been successful." Admitting that radio is still a bit callow, Schechter is certain its newscasting is reasonably mature. Proud of his job, he says expansively: "It is like being the city editor of the whole goddam world...
...Attorney's office was the story which McLane in bolder mood had breathed to the grand jury. Two years ago, Nitti had summoned him to a conference. Present, according to McLane's testimony, were Willie Bioff, a convicted pander; Nick Dean, alias Circella, a convicted crook; Louis Romano, who McLane said was a former Capone bodyguard; and fleshy George E. Browne, recently raised from fourteenth to twelfth vice president...
Died. Eddie Guerin, 80, Irish-born international crook, bank robber and purse-snatcher; in poverty, at Bury, Lancashire, England. Celebrated for his criminal exploits in collaboration with the legendary "Chicago May" Churchill, who helped him stick up the American Express office in Paris, Guerin made a sensational escape from Devil's Island in 1905, only to find, when he reached London, that "Chicago May" had deserted him for a new lover...
...Cornell cheering section, nestled in the crook of Schoellkopf crescent, chanted their plea for a touchdown. The game was only ten minutes old, but their beloved Big Red had already crossed Columbia's goal line once, had just intercepted a Columbia pass, and there they were on the visitors' 20-yd. line. Go they did - for another touchdown in the second quarter, two more in the third. As twilight settled above Cayuga's waters, Cornell had scored its fifth straight victory this season...