Word: hub
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday night the good men and true included such worthies as former Mayor John Fitzgerald, Charles Innes, Eliot Wadsworth, and other luminaries in the Hub firmament. They decided that Karen Andre was not guilty of the murder of her lover, Bjorne Faulkner, the notorious Swedish tycoon; which is just about the way things seemed to this unjudicial corner...
...Dewey and Mike Hovenanian, on the third line, gave the fans a few interesting moments with solo dashes that missed conversion by a hair. Benney Hallowell played a spirited game to finish off a short career before the Hub fans...
...recent banning of "The Children's Hour" from Boston theatres by an arbitrary triumvirate known as the Censorship Board has at last produced a solid opposition to the autocratic method of deciding what the Hub citizenry shall or shall not see on the stage. Yesterday the Massachusetts Theatre Alliance sponsored a bill before the Committee on Mercantile Affairs to climinate the "at their pleasure" clause from the powers granted to the Board in the censorship...
...women and children." In 1924 he was sponsoring a charter reform when the City Charter Committee was just getting under way. The two movements merged, but not until the last election did Preacher Bigelow get a seat on the municipal council. Meantime he had worked up a hub bub against utility companies. He had also joined Father Coughlin's National Union For Social Justice, sitting on the platform at meetings with the Detroit radio priest and vigorously proselytizing members of his own private "People's Church...
...called, when confronted with the job of playing at the Harvard-Yale Ball at the Copley Friday night, and a CRIMSON interviewer, didn't mind the unfairness of it all, but merely remarked that he was a college man, very used to it all, and fond of the Hub (but not over fond), comparing the district to a spring tonic (at any time of year...