Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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. . . You probably know of the Los Angeles Times's single-handed fight to persuade the world that the name is Hoover, not Boulder, Dam. On the surface this does not seem to be much of a cause but the Times has elevated it to a kind of daffy dignity...
"Inescapable Evidence." In Trenton, New Jersey's Court of Errors & Appeals handed down its decision in the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. near Hopewell in March 1932, was caught with ransom money in The Bronx in September 1934, was convicted and...
Freedom of the seas was one of President Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points and necessarily a wartime specialty of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Up for the silent President spoke in Washington last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull. To the Press good Mr. Hull handed...
Back in Virginia the iron-handed governor, Sir William, Berhely, had gone on record with "I thank God that there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years." Later, he contributed personally to the divinity school that is now the College...
In the first half of the ninth inning of the sixth game, Detroit's skinny little right-handed Pitcher Tommy Bridges got into a tight spot when the first Chicago batter made a three-base hit. He wriggled out of it by getting the next three men out in...