Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college professor last week. As many a like incident has done before, this raised hue & cry in academic circles and in the Liberal press. Professor Herbert Adolphus Miller, head of the sociology department of Ohio State University, went last year to India. He spoke to the Gandhites on the eve of their famed salt march. Last month Ohio State students were agitating against compulsory military training. Professor Miller actively supported them and voted with the faculty (83-10-79) to ask the university's trustees to make military drill optional. Soon the State House of Representatives received a resolution calling...
...Marco, who is in San Quentin prison, had a partner and consort in comely, blonde June Taylor, who continued as his field-manager. Last week it was hinted that Prosecutor Clark had some sort of understanding with the Taylor woman; that Crawford had threatened him with exposure on the eve of this week's election. Immediately she became the object of a search by police-the inevitable "key witness...
...ammunition, surrendered. Fat Duringer had been hiding under the bed. Pleased that the murder of the red-headed dancer had taken the city's attention from the murder of another red-headed girl-Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon, vice racketeer, whose death on the eve of giving testimony against a venal officer is yet to be solved (TIME, March 9, et seq.)-Commissioner Mulrooney sneered at Crowley: "Sure he fought when he was cornered. But so does a cornered rat. . . . He never really shot it out with anyone...
...from Texas to be put in command of the A. E. F. He long felt that the U. S. had made a "grievous error" for not doing something about the German invasion of Belgium. Reiterated throughout his book are complaints against a stupid bungling War Department which on the eve of War had on hand for issue only 1,500 machine guns, 400 field guns, 150 pieces of heavy artillery, 55 out-of-date airplanes. The Army's own General Staff had never considered sending an Army to France...
Withdrawal. Last year when Fox Film was hovering near receivership, its old bankers, Halsey, Stuart & Co., put up a marvelous fight. But this year Halsey, Stuart & Co. did not behave as intrepid ghost-layers should. On the eve of Mr. Wiggin's party an announcement was made that Halsey, Stuart & Co. had retired from the entire proceedings. Wall Street became a little more nervous. The ghost, it seemed, must indeed be a big ghost if Halsey, Stuart & Co. backed out, for the firm was one of the first houses to finance motion picture enterprises. Rumored as the chief reason...