Word: lead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This writer is at present at work on an original motion picture story, "First to Fight," based in part on the U. S. war with Tripoli and the capture of Derna, and covering the period up to and including the participation of Marines, "picked men, to lead the storming of Chapultepec under Major Twiggs and Captain McDonald Reynolds," at Mexico City in 1847; i.e., "From the Halls of Montexuma to the Shores of Tripoli...
...last week's end, C. I. Organizers met trouble that they did not expect. For Sunday they had scheduled a mass meeting at small Picher, Okla. in the midst of a rich lead & zinc region to talk tough miners into deserting the independent Tri-State Metal, Mine & Smelter Workers' Union. Before the meeting could assemble a mob of 4,000 Tri-Staters marched in armed with pick handles, clouted every C. I. O. man they could find in town, wrecked the meeting hall. Looking for more C. I. O. meetings, the mob crossed the Kansas line. One section...
Plot B is about Janet Haley (Barbara Stanwyck) just out of jail and trying to find her baby daughter, whom her bank-robber husband hid in some unknown place before he was shot. A gangster named Innes (Stanley Ridges) tells her he will lead her to her baby for $1,000 or her "friendship." When she tries to steal the $1,000 Gangster Hanlon has sent to Interne Kildare, Kildare foils her, learns her story, falls in love and gets Hanlon to capture Innes, who is seriously wounded. Kildare performs another emergency operation and Hanlon forces Innes to reveal that...
Yesterday, Kirkland opened up her season by trouncing, Lowell, 12-0. Aided by Lowell errors and eight hits from the Kirkland bats, the Deacons showed the effect of pre-season practice, Ross, Kirkland pitcher, allowing Lowell only four hits. Donald W. Davis, Jr. '37, lead-off man for the Deacons, pounded out a double and a triple to lead hits mates to an overwhelming victory. The line-ups: KIRKLAND (12) LOWELL (0) Davis, 3b 2b, Snyder Wills, ss lf, Lucas Moser, 2b c, Jones Kessler, c 1b, Cornell Carr, 1b p, Knowlton Howe, rf ss, L. White Spring...
...Indianapolis speedway the same city will have another race of quite a different nature, yet perhaps equally as exciting. In the annual meeting of the associated Harvard Clubs President Conant of Harvard will be pitted against the Alumni of America. In a sense President Conant will have a comfortable lead throughout, like the rabbit in a greyhound race, for on May 14 he gives them a formal address...