Word: docs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Miss Florence Verstile Furlow, daughter of the late F. C. Furlow, President of the Otis Elevator Co.; to Ralph Edward ("Doc") Jordan, '22 captain of the Yale football team...
...moment had been planned with elaborate care. Early in the evening the hundred gentlemen motored to the Picayune jail where the man, one Harold ("Doc") Jackson, was held as an accessory in the murder of two government entomologists found dead near Picayune. The grand jury, which convicted one Jesse Favre for the same murder, had refused to return a bill against Jackson (a white man). A jury's stupidity meant little to the hundred gentlemen. They waited outside the jail while two of their number opened the outer gate with acetylene torches-then the inner gate, then the door...
...much for the curmudgeon? Or would the canniness of the old man prevail to wrest the championship of the O'Brien family from the youth? Suddenly, silence fell in the locked room; the guests gasped; the door opened. "Better go in and sew him up, Doc," said Philadelphia Jack. The real name of the two O'Briens is Hagen...
...Landes and her old friend Mayor Brown, and the incident of 1924 was recalled. Some 40 bootleggers were being tried in court and the Federal prosecutor brought out that they had tapped the telephone wires in June, 1924, and passed the word around, "Lay low until 'Doc' Brown comes back to town...
...election took place last week. Some 95,000 votes were cast and little Bertha, now big Bertha, got some 6,000 more than "Doc" Brown. The total vote was larger than it had ever been...