Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last January, 48-year-old Editor Crowder, a lawyer who switched to journalism four years ago, was handed the hottest issue of his newspaper career. Employees of the Flora Municipal Light & Water System joined the A.F.L. Electrical Workers, and asked the City Council to recognize them as a union for collective bargaining. When the council refused, 19 employees went on strike. The Sentinel declared itself editorially neutral in the dispute, promised to report "both sides" in its news columns...
...sunk when incendiary time-bombs exploded in their holds. Responsible for a wave of dock strikes and the Black Tom explosion (and suspected of planning the sinking of the Lusitania), Rintelen was decoyed out of the U.S. and captured by British Naval Intelligence, was returned to the U.S., served four years in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary before being pardoned by President Wilson...
False Shepherds. In Birmingham, Police Chief Floyd Eddins dismissed four policemen working on a jewelry-store burglary, charged that they helped themselves to three wristwatches from the broken store window...
Three varsity hurlers--Ira Godin, Ralph Hymans, and Barry Turner--split the pitching duties. Only Turner got away unscathed, and it took some fine support to save him, Godin and Hymans each gave up four runs, including home runs by Jack Wallace and Bill Barron of the 1947 team. Varsity outfielder Herb Neal retaliated with a three-run homer off Wallace in the sixth, when Stuffy McInnis' men got four of their five tallies...
...varsity crew took its first time trial over the four mile New London race course Saturday, turning in a time of 20 minutes and 13 seconds--11 seconds over the upstream record. The Yale varsity, which has already been at Gale's Ferry for over a week, made its preliminary run on Thursday and was clocked at 20 minutes and 40 seconds by Coach Skip Walz...