Word: ed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shore. Icy shorelines make it difficult to land planes for maintenance. Such conditions decided Pan American to shift its New York terminus on the Bermuda run from Port Washington, L. I. to ice-free Baltimore. For the same reason, Pan American will use land planes at Juneau.-ED...
...Franklin Roosevelt tried to sound hearty about the withdrawal last week, three days before the vote, of State Senator Edgar Brown from the primary race for U. S. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith's seat from South Carolina. Mr. Roosevelt said it "clarified the issue" and he urged the voters to swing in behind Governor Olin D. Johnston, his agent to "purge" Senator Smith. Mr. Brown ruined the effect of this appeal by blasting Candidate Johnston as an insolent Huey Longster...
...Ed Collins (alias Chester Howard), 27 got out of San Quentin Prison last month after doing a stretch for a payroll hold-up in San Diego. Last week in Reno, Nev. he ran across two former pals who were with him on the San Diego job. They urged him to join them in a new robbery. He said he was going straight. To fortify his soul he attended evening services at the Reno Baptist Church...
...When Ed Collins came out of church his two pals were waiting for him. They took him to a lumber yard, made him steal two stout boards. Then they drove him to the edge of town, to a lonely spot near the County Hospital...
With the two boards they made cross. With tenpenny nails through his hands & feet, they crucified Ed Collins. His screams brought help in time to save his life. Police asked his pals' names. "Swede" and "Joe," replied Ed Collins. What else about them? asked the police "Skip it," said Collins...