Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gene & Glenn. Cleveland radio buffoons, are great favorites in their home town. To Cleveland's Public Auditorium for their 1933 Christmas celebration went 18,997 people, up to last week the Auditorium's attendance record. But Gene & Glenn are not to be compared as drawing cards with such headliners in their field as Burns & Allen, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, the Voice of Experience, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. One night last week 24,508 Clevelanders paid 25? each to see & hear Priest Coughlin of Royal Oak, Mich., make the second of twelve personal appearances aimed at welding...
...university (L. S. U.), shot-putter by day and Baton Rouge policeman by night, posed for the Press and languidly tossed a 12-lb. shot 62 ft. ½ in. to break the world's record of 60 ft. 5½ in. His famed former teammate, Quarter-Miler Glenn Hardin, won the 400-metre hurdles, then ran anchor on the Louisiana State two-mile relay team that nosed out Army. Temple's spry little Negro Eulace Peacock took the 100-metre dash and the broad jump...
...record. Next day Owens won the 100-yd. dash in 9.5 sec., tying the meet record made in 1926. After two days of running, jumping and throwing, six meet records had been broken, the University of California at Los Angeles had defended its mile-relay championship and famed Glenn Cunningham had won a special three-quarter mile race against Glen Dawson of Tulsa. At Santa Barbara, competing in the invitation Track & Field Championships, Pole-Vaulter Bill Graber, onetime star at the University of Southern California, broke his own world's record (14 ft. 4⅛ in.) with a vault...
...flew safely back to Alameda in 20 hrs. and 59 min. Later the big Sikorsky will make experimental flights over the other stages of the far-flung air-way-to Midway and Wake Islands, Guam, Manila and China. When the pioneer work is done-possibly by late sum-mer-Glenn Martin's huge Clipper No. 7 will inaugurate regular scheduled commercial service over the airway, first with mail only, eventually with passengers...
Zion's new Mayor, a 47-year-old grandfather named William M. Edwards who once replastered the White House while President Coolidge was vacationing in the Black Hills, hates Wilbur Glenn Voliva both for his tyranny and for his laxity. Mayor Edwards promised to enforce each & every one of Zion's laws against short skirts, low necks, bare arms, dancing, cinemas, pool, cards, tobacco, profanity, chewing gum, pork and oysters...