Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took the Federal Government less than a month to catch Harvey J. Bailey and Albert Bates, leaders of the gang which kidnapped Oklahoma's Charles Frederick Urschel last July. It took the Oklahoma City Federal court less than a fortnight to try them. Last week it took the jury only two and one-half hours to find them guilty. A verdict was returned against Bailey, Bates, Farmer R. L. ("Boss") Shannon and his wife and son (accused of hiding Urschel on their Texas farm), and two Minneapolis money-passers who handled part of the $200,000 ransom. Three other...
...years, twelve defendants were charged with conspiracy to kidnap the wealthy oil man. whose family had paid about $200,000 for his release last July. Besides Bates there were seven alleged money-passers from St. Paul and Minneapolis, Farmer Shannon, his wife and son, and most notorious of all, Harvey J. Bailey. The law was taking no chances with this desperado. The courtroom bristled with armed men. Every spectator, every lawyer was searched before entering. Even the judge had a bodyguard. It was Harvey J. Bailey who had engineered the Memorial Day break from the Kansas State Penitentiary...
Yale University inaugurated its version of the House Plan-seven colleges in costly quadrangles given by Edward Stephen Harkness. Among Yale's new professors are famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing and James Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll of London who succeeds George Pierce Baker in the Drama School. Yale reshuffled its graduate courses, distributing among its professional schools the degrees in Music, Public Health, Engineering, Drama and Architecture which were formerly offered by the Graduate School...
Notable were those so honored: President Atterbury of Pennsylvania Railroad, President Hutchins of University of Chicago, Dr. Harvey Gushing. Boston's famed surgeon. In 1931 when Eugene Meyer was given his "Y in life," Mr. Roberts (now president of S. W. Straus) received a letter from an alumnus of Leland Stanford, saying: "The award represents discrimination and judgment on the part of the givers. . . . Yours faithfully, Herbert Hoover...
...Owen returns home on vacation before the rehearsals of his new play, his mother tries to get him to give Lily a part. Lily suggests that he rewrite the play to do so. Eventually, in spite of Owen's passive obstruction, she manages to win the affections of Harvey, the hard-boiled director, and wriggles into the cast. When the play reaches New York, after a singularly hectic routine of rehearsals and road showings, Lily has stolen from the leading lady not only her role, but her fiance, who happens to be leading...