Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only way that Negro Matthew Williams knew to protest his low wages was to get a revolver, kill his boss. His boss was Daniel J. Elliott, 67-year-old lumber dealer of Salisbury, on the eastern shore of Maryland. Last week, a few hours after the crime, the Eastern Shore upheld its reputation for being a fringe of the Deep South. Six men marched into the hospital where Williams lay, only partly conscious because he had shot himself in the chest and his employer's son had shot him in the head. A mob of 2,000 turned...
...well as financially, is out to make Chicago a great cultural centre as well as the country's biggest railroad junction, assembled last week in a new million-dollar building on the citified "campus" of the University of Chicago. Henry and Stanley Field, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Thomas Elliott Donnelley, Harold Higgins Swift, et ul., mingled with a learned collection of archaeologists and other scientists. Neatly bespatted, with waxed mustache almost as shiny as his horn-rimmed spectacles, the Egyptian Minister to the U. S., Sesostris Sidarouss Pasha was there, beaming at one & all, and especially at the rosy little...
...Elliott, Staten, L. N. Y., R. P. Elms, Cambridge, R. W. Emory, Baltimore, Md., W. M. Evans, Munhall, Pa., G. Evashwick, Turtle Creek, Pa., L. G. Feld, Kansas City, Mo., H. G. Fernald, Cambridge, H. A. Fierst, Mount Vernon, N. Y., W. H. Fink, Brookline, E. W. Fox, Springfield, F. J. Frisoli, Cambridge, P. Fuller, Boston, E. F. Gardner, Boston. V. B. Glunts, Roxbury, R. Goodman, Brockton, R. S. Goodwin, Cambridge, E. Greene, Cambridge, L. D. Hallett, West Somerville, J. H. Hallowell, Brookline, Pa., E. N. Hartley, Lowell, D. W. Haycock, Calais, Mc., L. Hershon, Cambridge, M. L. Hoffman, Mattapan...
Fast Service. J. C. Nugent and his good boy Elliott used to write amiable, innocuous little comedies like Kempy and The Poor Nut. Then they went out to Hollywood where Will H. Hays is supposed to keep everything clean and where, as Lee Tracy stoutly declared in Louder, Please, "Criterion stars sleep alone!'' Back from the west coast after two years, the Nugents have suddenly kicked over the traces, fashioned for themselves a play in which, for the first time, their leading lady does not sleep alone. Psychologists might say that the Nugents were enjoying a release mechanism...
...pocket.) But all gathered good-humoredly about the radios in the smoking room and afterdeck to hear the play-by-play reports. When the Hochheimer was gone the drinkers turned to rum, were finally reduced to gin before the S. S. Pan America returned to Manhattan having, as Author Elliott White Springs said, "sailed a wonderful game." Banker Harvey D. Gibson observed: "We didn't bargain for a long sea trip but we made one." Others aboard the floating grandstand: Reeve Schley, Waddill Catchings, Allan A. Ryan, Leonard Hanna, Rodman Wanamaker II, Mr, & Mrs, Austin Smithers...