Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Division last week, the Toronto Maple Leafs were overwhelming favorites to keep their present No. 1 position. Fast, heavy, durable and daring, the Maple Leafs' two most spectacular assets are Forwards Harvey Jackson and Charles Conacher, who lead the League in scoring goals. In second place were the Montreal Maroons, a clever team whose crack defenseman is Charles Conacher's older brother, Lionel. Fighting for third place last week were the Montreal Canadiens, who last summer traded their best players for younger ones who have thus far failed to justify themselves, and the New York Americans...
...HARVEY D. BURRILL Editor...
...outraged Londoner was confused. Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered one wife. He poisoned her, then cut her in pieces and hid her in the cellar...
Four summers ago Harvey Crowley Couch, public utilitarian and champion hog-caller of Pine Bluff, Ark. chanted that remedy for rural Depression up & down the land. Last week at Prattsville (pop.: 114) he summoned a meeting of farmers and their wives to announce a far-flung scheme for bringing electricity into 15,000 isolated Arkansas farm homes. He proposed that his company, Arkansas Power & Light, invest about $600 per home in transmission lines and equipment, while each farmer was to put $200 into lamps, irons, washing machines, water pumps. How were the farmers to raise the money? Why, said...
Gone from the front page was the customary offering of foreign news, the cartoon, the Washington column. Their place was taken by a slew of local stories, mostly short, and all written with a forced gaiety that would have made the Oregonian's late, great Editor Harvey Scott writhe in angry protest. Headlines were blacker, shallower. Inside were more and bigger pictures than Oregonian readers had ever seen. A banner headline glared across the sports page, and there were awful rumors that one might soon stream across Page One. Crowning horror was a Bible contest, with fat cash prizes...