Word: holliday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under blunt Police Superintendent Louis F. Guerre, State troopers tramped into the office of David M. Ellison, Attorney General. Capt. J. A. Holliday called out his militia, saying "it was nothing but a drill." By these martial hints, Ellison learned he was no longer Attorney General. Governor Long had decided after four months that Ellison had taken his oath of office illegally. Also ousted was the first assistant, bald, old Kingfish-worshipping James O'Connor. Next day Ellison, with a straight face, remarked that Long had done him a "favor," withdrew from the January 16 primary as opposition candidate...
...dominates both W. N. U. and A. P. A. qualifies as No. 1 in the rural press. Last week it seemed that the man would be 57-year-old John Holliday Perry. Already president of A. P. A., which at one time competed with W. N. U. in selling feature boiler plate, Mr. Perry has long sought control of W. N. U. Two years ago, he barely missed it when W. N. U. called off a plan to throw itself into 77-B bankruptcy to scale down interest payments (TIME, April 27, 1936). Last month, he bought enough voting trust...
...themselves out, but the full impact of Hemingway's major achievement is just beginning to make itself felt in U. S. fiction. Last week a young Arizona novelist showed what happens when the legendary heroes of the Old West-men of the cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway's studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick on the trigger as ever, but hard-up instead of heroic, dissatisfied, bewildered, trapped. Although they start shooting at the hint of an insult, they, too, eat dirt, have their human share...
...Omaha bondholders had come to terms. Meanwhile a third investors' faction headed by Allison L. Bayles, Manhattan investment banker, and counseled by Attorney Bruce Tuttle, had appeared. Its announced objective: To do away with W. N. U.'s present management, bring in as head man John Holliday Perry, president of American Press Association, country weekly advertising representatives. Counting noses for this fight, President Fish said he had 1,000 of the 1,200 bondholders on his side. Unable to get even a list of bondholders from the management, the Bayles-Tuttle group sought to qualify as a reorganization...
...sons in boarding school, but they ran away; he put them in St. Louis University, but they quickly got back to the hunting grounds that made them happy. Still a youngster, Miguel met Wild Bill, Bat Masterson, Mysterious Dave Mathers, Texas Jack, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Doc Holliday, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Pat Garrett, Clay Allison and dozens of the dance hall girls, known only by first names such as Liz,. Dolly, Steamboat, Trix, whom he was to recall pleasantly 60 years later...