Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third: the U.S. team, which had won the cup for four years running, with 24 faults. ¶ In Texas, where interracial prizefights are prohibited on the theory that they might start race riots, a Court of Civil Appeals ruled against the state, agreed with Negro Boxer I. H. ("Sporty") Harvey that the 14th Amendment guarantees him the right to occasional bouts with his white brothers. ¶ In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the New York Knickerbockers got the professional basketball season off to a fast and early start. The deft passing of Dick McGuire and the deadly shooting...
Cause & Effect. In Ventura, Calif., after being sentenced to six months in jail for drunkenness and given five extra days for arriving drunk in court, Harvey D. Wilcox moaned: "That's what drives a guy to drink...
Brattle Films Inc., under the management of Cyrus Harvey, Jr. '47 and Bryant Halliday '49, have filed suit in the Middlesex superior court testing the constitutional right of the Massachusetts Commissioner of Safety to ban "Miss Julie" last February. They expect the case to be heard within the next two weeks...
Exit Dunlop. While Scotland's John Dunlop first thought of putting his pneumatic tires on bicycles, it took an Irishman to gaze into the spinning wheels and see a fortune. Dublin Paper Merchant Harvey Du Cros, father of three famed bicycle racers, needed only to see his sons beaten by a man on Dunlop tires before he set to work. He promptly organized a tire company, persuaded Dunlop to join him, and with classic forethought predicted in his prospectus: "The pneumatic tyre will be almost indispensable for ladies and persons with delicate nerves...
With the stamina of six-day bicycle racers, Harvey Du Cros and his sons set out to convert the British Isles, then the Continent, them the U.S. They built new factories in France, Germany, and Canada ; in seven "years the company was reorganized with $24 million capital, and John Dunlop sold his interest...