Word: cross
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks of spring training and have been belting the daylights out of each other on Soldiers Field since September 7. The answer is still "yes." The 1948 schedule is all meat. As of today, the Varsity is rated as underdog against Columbia, Army, Princeton and Dartmouth. Yale, Holy Cross, Brown and Cornell are regarded as tossups...
...Holy Cross...
Holiday Mood. In London, when the Daily Herald sent a couple of reporters and three homing pigeons to cover a cross-Channel swim, the reporters came home, but the pigeons headed, respectively, for Paris, Marseille and the Riviera...
...face of Hummon's ominous white-supremacy shouting, Georgia's Negro voters did not exactly rush to the polls. In Melvin Thompson's home town of Valdosta, Klansmen hoisted a fiery cross after his election-eve speech. In Bulloch County, Klansmen deposited a coffin on the doorstep of one Negro. In the piney woods area of Montgomery County, a 28-year-old Negro named Isaiah Nixon asked if he could vote. He was warned not to, the sheriff said, but voted anyhow. That night two men appeared at his house, shot him dead in front...
Since then the Pathé producer-exhibitor network has gone successively through bankruptcy, reorganization, Nazi occupation, and the purge of collaborators. The Bank of France's Ferdinand Liffran is titular boss, has the help of a potent cross-section of French big business (steel, oils, insurance, cognac and utilities are represented on Pathé's present board). By diligent squeezing Pathé last year made a profit of $151,200 from films and its 35 European theaters...