Word: hustler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Colfax last fortnight an L. & A. freight was wrecked, five cars derailed. Outside Alexandria a shower of bullets spattered the Shreveport-New Orleans Hustler, smashed a Pullman window, narrowly missed a passenger. At Winnfield birthplace of Huey Long, a howling pistolwaving, rock-throwing mob besieged a tramload of Louisiana State University football rooters returning to Baton Rouge after a game with the University of Arkansas at Shreveport. Train guards ordered all lights out. The passengers were forced to lie on the aisle floors for hours, keep up their courage by sucking at flasks until local police drove...
...Hustler rolled down the tracks near Winnfield one midnight last week shotguns flashed in a bordering wood, ten loads of buckshot poured into the tram, killed a guard, wounded the engineer and fireman. Unintimidated President Couch set guards and inspectors patrolling the line from Shreveport to New Orleans, posted $5,000 reward for the murderers. While rumors crackled the Federal Government might take a hand because of interference with the mails, the National Mediation Board proclaimed its hands tied because of President Couch's refusal to arbitrate. Hopefully Louisiana's rotund Governor Leche called a peace conference...
...aggressive, dapper hustler is Edward F. ("Ned") Hutton, board chairman of General Foods Corp. He founded the big New York Stock Exchange house that bears his name. Already rich in his own right, he got into the grocery business in 1920 by marrying the sole heir of the late Charles William Post, founder of Postum Cereal Co. And throughout the following decade the Huttons cut a wide swath through the society pages of the U. S. Press...
Only a few years after Colonel Otis acquired the Times his eye had lit on an aggressive, cool-headed circulation hustler named Harry Chandler, a young fellow-Yankee from New Hampshire who had quit Dartmouth to go West for his health. Harry Chandler married the boss's daughter, was soon high in the saddle as the Times's general manager. From this vantage he looked with considerable anxiety on his father-in-law's savage enmity toward union labor...
...Francisco's swankest jewelry shop is Shreve's on Grant Avenue, but many a middle-class housewife prefers Samuels', "The House of Lucky Wedding Rings," on Market Street. Albert S. Samuels, a hustler who started in business two years after the 1906 Earthquake, used to give a theatre party every year for couples who had been married with his rings. The parties stopped in 1922 because he could not find a theatre large enough to hold all his guests...